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 Seattle School Board is poised to make its most important academic decision in decades: whether to remain on the reform math bandwagon. We urge members to look beneath the glittery wrapping of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seattle Public Schools has decided to stick with reform math. With the School Board’s 4-3 vote May 6 for the “Discovering Algebra” and “Discovering Geometry” textbooks, the battle is finished. Reform ...

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 ...