Parents question math strategies
They fear schools focus too much on talk, not enough on facts
As third-graders sat in a circle around her, teacher Jane Ehrenfeld outlined a math problem: If you put 275 pennies into rollers holding 25 pennies each, how many penny rollers would they fill? (Full article: 1255 words)
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