Closing The Math Gap

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_5525160

Hopefully other schools can start using this technique and, of course, hopefully this works.

I will look it up later but can anyone explain Singapore math?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Math

A good summary:
http://diodati.omniscientx.com/2007/01/22/why-americans-suck-at-math-looking-to-singapore-math/

Current mathe curricula in the US are confounded by the checkbox testing. Kids need to pass the tests to make the school look good, so the school teaches them to pass tests. Answers by rote. The peace of the board of education which passeth all understanding.

Whats 7*6?

42.

How did you work that out?

huh?

What's 14*6?

dunno.

Why not?

dunno. is it on the test?

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