"It's taking some time to get students, teachers, and parents to understand that our goal is about making sense of math, not in just finding the right answer."

"The Eureka Math strategy of read, write, or draw is helpful. You have some children who can explain how they understand the math by drawing a picture; then some see the algorithm; and some, like me, write words to explain what they are doing. This curriculum is asking for all that. We can touch all types of students, all types of learners with it."

"The way the teachers are teaching this year, the focus is on really understanding how the numbers work. The number sense piece is huge."

"I had a low-performing  student last year when I was teaching...One day he raised his hand, and I called on him. He said, 'Ms. LeBlanc, if I would have known math was this easy I would have liked it a long time ago.'"