{"id":223,"date":"2006-01-31T08:45:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T00:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2009-08-30T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T04:22:48","slug":"everyday-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/everyday-math-223","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <i>Go figure - \"Everyday Math\" shows there's more than one way to solve a problem, but it has parents lost in translation<\/i> [which is no longer available] demonstrates two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mathematics education is one extended experiment<\/li>\n<li>Parents never have a clue what is going on in schools - especially in math<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the approach described, I like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> the use of manipulatives, <\/li>\n<li>encouraging alternative approaches and <\/li>\n<li>emphasis on number<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, from the article, it all seems rather disorganised.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It's called Everyday Math, a reform curriculum developed by the University of Chicago in the 1980s and now used by nearly 3 million students throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One alternative strategy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For example, a child adding 326 to 575 would first add the hundreds column, then the tens, then the ones, then add up the results, a foreign strategy for many adults.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Students have a lot of difficulty with algebra when they have not mastered basic number skills. And those number skills must be couched in real-life problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/everyday-math-223#comments\" id=\"comms\">4 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article Go figure - \"Everyday Math\" shows there's more than one way to solve a problem, but it has parents lost in translation [which is no longer available] demonstrates two things: Mathematics education is one extended experiment Parents never have a clue what is going on in schools - especially in math In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}