Thursday, January 12, 2012

Mystified by Modern Math?

Many parents are discovering that their children are learning math concepts using different techniques and language from what they learned in school 20 or 30 years ago. As a result, many parents are feeling it a challenge to help their kids when it's homework time and their kids are scratching their heads in bewilderment.

Toronto dad Gerry Dunn was so befuddled that he was inspired to find out what all the different terms mean: eg. "regroup", "making equivalent fractions" and "tesselation" etc. He has decoded the modern math for parents of Grade 5 students across the Toronto District School Board.




 
This 140-page book is a refresher course for parents and will enable them to better understand the way math is being taught today. More information here and here.

You can tell that I find the subject of modern math and modern families of interest and concern. See my previous post.
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  1. Karen StrykerJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:47 PM

    Ooooh, I'm so glad you posted this. Now I'm not the only one. I found math hard the first time around. Maybe I'll understand it better this way! I'm having Kate teach me. I figure I better understand the fundamentals so I can help her in the years to come.

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