When I decided to read every word of California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I learned that even speculative and unproved ideas can end up as official ...

The California State Board ... math content is structured throughout the grades. Instead of organizing curricula and instruction around individual standards, the framework outlines “big ideas ...

Last month, the California Board of Education unanimously ... can succeed at high levels by making math engaging and relevant and teaching through ‘big ideas’ making connections to other ...

Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the ... of facts—not get compared with their peers on a poster board hanging on the wall for all to see.

With unanimity and generally high praise on Wednesday, the State Board of ... “big ideas” while, critics said, diminishing direct instruction and fluency from teaching math facts and ...

Math solutions can be found in surprising places, including the dark realms of the Internet. In 2011 an anonymous poster on the now infamously controversial image board 4chan posed a mathematical ...