Math Education Evolves With Fun-Infused Program at Braintree's Liberty School
For students at Liberty School, learning math facts is a fun, family affair.
Three years ago, Betsy Cahill of Liberty School sat down with Dr. Bill Kendall and other elementary math specialists to discuss the recent revisions to the Mathematics Curriculum Frameworks. The revision overturned some previously held beliefs that children focus on the abstract nature of math. Instead, it called for a return to the need for students to have automaticity and mastery of math facts by the end of fifth grade. For many years, the surefire way of learning math facts was by pure memorization. One times one is one, two times ten is twenty, three times four, etc. Then came a time "when it was believed that children should learn math facts innately as opposed to by rote,” Liberty principal Dr. Joyce Radiches said in a recent …
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bakhtawar
4:42 am on Saturday, February 25, 2012
i love maths and i am really good at it as well .i think its an important subject and should be tought in a proper way more ›