Our Eureka Math writers and users have been getting some great press. We hope you enjoy these stories. Congrats, Team Eureka!
Lynne Munson
President and Executive Director, Great Minds
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Louisiana newspaper goes to school.
This New Orleans Times-Picayune story on Eureka Math offers insights into how the curriculum came about and what sets it apart. One reader responded, "I had no idea what the Eureka method was until I looked at the video... Kids learning multiplication using the Eureka method could really be good at solving math problems in their head." Go inside a Louisiana classroom where 4th-graders are using multiple strategies that help them to better understand the math concepts they are learning.
"Take that, commercial publishers!"
"Eureka's strong showing is particularly impressive, as it didn't exist five years ago--it was originally created from scratch for the EngageNY website, whose combined math and ELA curriculum modules have been downloaded nearly eighteen million times. Take that, commercial publishers!" writes Victoria Sears of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on the EdReports.org analysis of K-8 math curricula.
Assessing students during the year.
Here's another update on our fall listening tour of Eureka Math districts.
What we heard: Teachers like the exit tickets at the end of each lesson, but they said that the time between instruction and the end-of-module assessment was long; they need more assessments throughout the module.
What we're doing: We are collaborating with providers of a web-based assessment platform to offer a comprehensive tool that will allow teachers to create formative and interim assessments that can provide needed data and inform instructional decisions.
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