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Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Work on identifying sight words. Count, read and write numbers to 20. OBJECTIVE: In this lesson, students listen to sounds in words and work on identifying sight words with Mrs. Forth. Mrs. Williams ...

As the Ontario government tries to tackle declining math grades in the province's classrooms, one teacher argues that the teaching style known as "discovery math" could be to blame. "One of the issues ...

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Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

In Central Falls, R.I., teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing on “key words,” the traditional, simplistic approach that often leads younger students astray CENTRAL FALLS, R.I ...