Before you ring in the new year, here is our weekly run-down of triumphs and travails from the ongoing effort to help all American math students say, "I got it!"
Happy holidays,
Lynne Munson
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Facebook help for teachers. Teachers who graduated from Louisiana State University of Alexandria are using a Facebook group to answer questions on Eureka Math from parents struggling to help with their kids' homework. With over 2,000 members, the group allows parents to get quick answers and learn the new math strategies from the experts: teachers who have successfully implemented Eureka Math in their classrooms. Check it out here.
California superintendent on Eureka Math and higher standards. "We are integrating those skills in a more robust fashion, in earlier grades, so that students have a stronger foundation...and hopefully, they can bust open the 'algebra door'----get to higher level math----and be more competitive to higher learning, where math and calculus and statistics are all foundational skills," says Tuolumne County Schools Superintendent Margie Bulkin on the value of Eureka Math and higher standards in an article for myMotherlode.com. Read it here.
Schooling prime-time news. The University of Missouri's Samuel Otten shows how the nightly news got it all wrong in its Oct. 29 piece on Common Core math. His videos are well worth watching and sharing.
Louisiana instructional coach on Eureka Math. "I like it as an instructional coach, and I liked it as a teacher," says Caddo Parish's Amanda Perry. "I actually found it to be wonderful in how it explains the deeper concepts we want children to learn in math... Under the old way of learning math, students learned how to compute, but they didn't understand what was behind the standard algorithms when they got to middle and high school math. They just memorized a lot of formulas, never understanding what was behind the math."
Louisiana math needs a boost. The Gordon A. Cain Center for STEM Literacy's recent report on Louisiana students' struggles with math has some bleak statistics but comes with suggested solutions. Among the list of high-wage, high-growth jobs in the state that need math skills are electricians, nurses, and pharmacists. The Cain Center promotes focus, coherence, and rigor to help students gain the skills necessary to be successful in the job market. Read it here.
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Have something to share? Please email me at lmunson@commoncore.org.
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