Marianne Jennings, an Arizona State business professor, has brought enlightenment to multitudes. With her commentaries on her daughter Sarah’s eighth-grade math book (“MTV Math,” she calls it, for its ...

From the NY Times, an article “As Math Scores Lag, a New Push for the Basics” about rethinking the teaching of “fuzzy math” in American schools. “The changes are being driven by students’ lagging ...

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As parents and teachers struggle to improve their children’s mathematics education, they are getting mixed messages on what constitutes quality instruction in that critical subject. Consider, for ...

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What constitutes quality mathematics instruction? And, if we don’t have it in schools now, how do we get it? In this Education Week Commentary, Jere Confrey warns that setting standards will not be ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics released new guidelines that, for example, call on fourth graders to know multiplication tables and division. Oddly, it's big news when math teachers ...

DO you know what math curriculum your child is being taught? Are you worried that your third- grader hasn’t learned simple multiplication yet? Have you been befuddled by educational jargon such as ...

The term “fuzzy math” was first introduced during the 2000 presidential campaign by Republican nominee George W. Bush. He used it to describe Democratic nominee Al Gore’s criticism of Bush’s economic ...

Those who were in America when George W. Bush described Al Gore’s economic figures as “fuzzy math,” will remember how whilst he kept repeating the phrase, he never once discussed Gore’s economic ...