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November 2007 | Volume 65 | Number 3
Marge Scherer
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Lynn Arthur Steen
What will it take for students—and adults—to really understand mathematics?
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Marilyn Burns
Essential strategies for boosting students' foundational knowledge.
Deborah Schifter
Examining errors is not just for grading purposes.
John Hoven and Barry Garelick
The slogan for Singapore Math is “simple explanations for hard concepts.”
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Steven Leinwand and Alan L. Ginsburg
Lessons about focus versus fragmentation, alignment versus coverage.
Zalman Usiskin
A single set of national standards ensures neither high student performance nor a healthy economy, this author asserts.
Arthur Hyde
How to adapt reading strategies to teach mathematics.
Erica N. Walker
Ways to help black and Latino students succeed in higher-level math courses.
Sarah Theule Lubienski
To reduce achievement gaps, schools need to help students move beyond the belief that math is memorization.
David Suarez
Tasks that are at just the right level of difficulty make learning interesting.
Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller, Kathleen Jungjohann, David J. Chard and Scott Baker
A taste of algebra in elementary school helps students develop abstract reasoning.
Lesa M. Covington Clarkson, Gay Fawcett, Elaine Shannon-Smith and Nancy T. Goldman
From using graphing calculators to reinforcing math at the zoo, educators share ways to boost the confidence of mathematics students.
Michael Jellinek, Jeff Q. Bostic and Steven C. Schlozman
Guidelines for crisis teams helping schools deal with grief.
W. James Popham
Douglas B. Reeves
Joanne Rooney
Deborah Perkins-Gough
Katie Gurule
Teamwork among teachers improves student math achievement.
Carla Thompson
Ways to engage teens in math.
Naomi Thiers
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