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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A column by Virginia Warfield of the University of Washington suggests that the rising storm of criticism of Washington state K-12 math education is based on myths ("Many math 'truths' are in fact ...

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...

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 ...