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Letters to the Editor: Teach math as puzzles for kids to solve. That's more fun than memorization

To the editor: Math classes should be eliminated and replaced by another recess period. In other words, if mathematics or arithmetic was taught as puzzles to be explored and as a fun activity instead ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Subtract the shame from learning math. Add affirmation and hope

To the editor: Stanford professor Jo Boaler is hopeful about new approaches to teaching math, and I am hopeful too. In school, I encountered the wall of indifference in learning math that Boaler talks ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Critics of the new math curriculum framework, you have any better ideas?

To the editor: I admire the devotion shown by UC Berkeley professors Jennifer Chayes and Tsu-Jae King Liu to improving K-12 math education. But their op-ed article criticizing the proposed state ...
Dallas Morning News

Letters to the Editor — New math, schooling, fentanyl, Dallas mayor

Re: “Latest new math multiplies frustration,” by Abby McCloskey, Sunday Opinion. I read with interest this article about the newly adopted Eureka math curriculum. I am a 30-year veteran Dallas ISD ...
The Vindicator

Teaching math must go back to the basics

We have had new math, modern math and now we have common core math — none of them are working and the last one is the most ridiculous way to teach math. This is supposed to make children critical ...
Yahoo

Letters to the Editor: Higher math is everywhere. But should UC require all applicants to learn it?

To the editor: As a physics professor who uses Algebra 2 (and higher math) every day, I felt compelled to respond to the debate over how much math the University of California system should require ...