By Bill Lombard on 1 January, 2009
NOTE: This is the text of an article written by Rob Stein, a Washington Post Staff Writer, on Monday, September 8, 2008. Here is the link to the article found on the Post’s Website. Scientists have for the first time established a link between a primitive, intuitive sense of numbers and performance in math classes, [...]
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By Bill Lombard on 30 December, 2008
This post features a video and some excerpts from the article “Lebanon schools turn algebra into child’s play”, by Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian. While most high schools in Oregon and across the nation struggle to get freshmen to pass algebra, one school district is trying something very different. Lebanon, which educates 4,000 students in eight [...]
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