Alberta Education is to be commended for adding standard algorithms to the Alberta math curriculum. Congratulations to Dr. Nhung Tran Davies and her team and to the mathematicians in Alberta who advocated for this!
Link to Nhung Tran-Davies’ petition
The Manitoba government announced yesterday that K-8 teachers will be required to complete two math content courses in university to obtain teacher certification.
Manitoba Education News Release, September 8, 2015.
Parental help factors in on math success by Anna Stokke
From Tara Houle in Times Colonist: Comment: Failed fads resurface in ‘new’ B.C. curriculum
Here are some summer reading suggestions on education.
1. What to do about Canada’s declining math scores by Anna Stokke.
2. Seven Myths About Education by Daisy Christodoulou.
3. Teaching math in the 21st Century by Barry Garelick.
4. Standing in the education gap: A common sense approach to helping your child succeed in school by Marc Lapointe.
5. Progressively worse: The burden of bad ideas in British schools by Robert Peal.
Have a great summer from WISE Math!
“Discovery learning” is failing our children, by Philip Sullivan, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto.
From BC parent advocate, Tara Houle:
Comment: Lack of basic skills holding children back, Times Colonist
