Students are barely beginning to recover from a historic decline in math performance. Across every grade and region of the country, students in every racial, income, and disability group have ...
The familiar, hierarchical sequence of math instruction starts with counting, followed by addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division. The computational set expands to include bigger ...
Sara Jensen works for Carthage College. She is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, and is a Project NExT red dot ('15). One snowy January day, I asked a classroom of college students ...