A student at Lansdowne Elementary calculates how many students are on a bus with blocks in a Heart Math tutoring session on Wednesday, Nov. 9, in Charlotte, NC. State Superintendent Catherine Truitt ...

Defending reform math Several recent letter writers have asked some interesting questions about reform math. Here are some facts: Reform math is based on how math is taught in other countries that are ...

The changes are being driven by students’ lagging performance on international tests and mathematicians’ warnings that more than a decade of so-called reform math — critics call it fuzzy math — has ...

The Common Core math standards have poured gasoline on the math “reform” fire that has raged for the past 20-plus years. This is particularly true since the national dialogue about Common Core has ...

Hundreds of mathematicians and scientists have signed a statement calling on educators to abandon “well-intentioned” efforts to close achievement gaps in math education, saying it could have ...

Unhappy with new "reform" math being taught to their children, a group of parents in the Tigard-Tualatin School District will ask the school board Thursday to offer traditional math classes as well.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Superintendent Catherine Truitt wants elementary and middle schools to provide students with at least 60 minutes a day of ...

State Superintendent Catherine Truitt wants elementary and middle schools to provide students with at least 60 minutes a day of math instruction to boost their math skills. Truitt presented to a state ...