When a student says, “I’ve learned this already,” or a parent complains about the pace of their child’s math education, they are unwittingly equating their (or their child’s) understanding to that of these historically great minds: there is nothing left for me (or my child) to learn, here, so let’s move on.
Read MorePEMDAS is wrong. Or, rather, many students’ understanding of the order of operations is wrong and PEMDAS is to blame.
Read MoreIn 2015, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conducted the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a world-wide study designed to evaluate scholastic performance in mathematics, science and reading.
Read MoreFor many of these students, math has never meant anything more than rote memorization; they cannot even conceive of understanding because they have never experienced it.
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