The BSD math textbook adoption committee has received over 100 letters from parents, students and community members supporting a textbook that uses direct instruction, and only a couple supporting an ...

Earlier this year, the Seattle School Board changed the kind of math textbooks used in our elementary schools, selecting texts intended to be used with explicit instruction. Under explicit instruction ...

South Korea has some of the highest math scores in the world. On the 2012 PISA math test, the mean score for a South Korean student was 70 points higher than for an American student. Lots of theories ...

The current approach to curricular resources in the United States might seem to indicate that the textbooks any given school uses doesn’t matter much. Many states and districts don’t know what ...

A new group billing itself as a “Consumer Reports for school materials” will soon begin posting free online reviews of major textbooks and curricula that purport to be aligned to the Common Core State ...

Critics sounded off on a math textbook in Collier County, Florida, approved by the school board that appeared to include emotionally based questions that appeared to have nothing to do with numbers or ...

Sometimes the thrill of mathematics doesn’t come from the question, but from a beautiful solution. Consider the approach EMU math professor Owen Byer took when deciding which problems to include in ...

After rejecting dozens of math textbooks this month for containing “prohibited topics” that included references to critical race theory, the Florida Department of Education left public elementary ...