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America’s Math Crisis

We teach the wrong math, tested in the wrong way, writes Ted Dintersmith.
In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...