Commentary In 2018, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won a resounding majority in the Ontario provincial election. This gave them a strong mandate to implement their campaign promises. One promise was to overhaul the provincial math curriculum. Specifically, Ford promised to scrap “discovery math” and replace it with a strong “back-to-basics” curriculum. Ford’s pledge was…
Never Give Up: Tears and Triumph Over Long Division
Third grade–we all remember it–some memories are good, others, not so much, but one thing that many of us remember is math. Already a huge transitional grade, it’s also a school year in which many new concepts are introduced, and no subject introduces more new concepts than math. As a third-grade teacher for 10 years,…
Choosing Mediocrity Promotes Neither Inclusion nor Equity
Commentary The Vancouver School Board (VSB) strives for excellence in educating students. At least that’s what its vision statement says. However, the VSB’s recent decision to cancel all of its math and science honours programs calls this commitment into question. Instead of getting advanced instruction in math and science, gifted students will have to make…
New Math Policies Would Hurt Gifted Students
May 26, 2021
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Commentary Perhaps Alan Erisman, who headed a team of applied mathematicians at Boeing, sums the education of numbers up best. Says Erisman, author of the upcoming book The Math Myth: “If we taught English the way we teach math, students would spend all their time doing spelling tests and diagraming sentences but never read a…
Dumbing Down Public-School Math in the Name of Social Justice
Commentary In the interest of “math equity”—doing something about racial disparities in accelerated mathematics classes for gifted middle-school and high-school students—the state of California is considering simply doing away with public schools’ accelerated math track altogether. The current system, which allows youngsters with demonstrated math proficiency to start algebra in the 8th grade and take…
Proposed Math Framework Would Hinder Gifted Students, Educator Says
May 14, 2021
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—California’s new math framework aims to keep students learning at the same level, in the name of equity. However, critics say this would discourage some students from advancing ahead. For example, critics predict that students who are gifted in math may be prevented from enrolling in more advanced courses like algebra in middle…
My Hot Math Mess: Tips for Homeschooling Math
Large, round eyes blankly flitter around the room then squint as a grin spreads across her face. “I don’t know,” she says to the panel of teachers at the Math Bowl in 1989. The young lady made the math team by the skin of her teeth but proved unable to function at all under real…
Textbooks Are Still Important in School
Commentary I learned a lot about Canadian history when I was in Grade 6. Unfortunately, it had little to do with what happened during class. Rather, I came across an old discarded Canadian history textbook in our school library and started reading it during my breaks. It taught me far more about the history of…
Woke Math Doesn’t Add Up
Commentary Bridge 9340 opened in 1967 and was the U.S. state of Minnesota’s third-busiest bridge, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily. Forty years later, the bridge collapsed during the evening rush hour without warning. Thirteen people died. An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the collapse was the result of a math error made…
California Discloses Math Behind Easing Stay-at-Home Order
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California’s health director on Tuesday revealed the math behind the state’s calculation that it was safe to lift all remaining stay-at-home orders, a response to criticism that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration was hiding key data affecting people’s lives and livelihoods. A half-dozen formulas were used to project that all regions of the state will…
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