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On teaching arithmetic

2013-09-17 16:15:23.800313+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Psychology Today: When less is more: The case for teaching less math in school.

... She concluded that nobody could be learning much math in school and, "It appears that the higher scores of the affluent districts are not due to superior teaching but to the supplementary informal ‘home schooling' of children."

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#Comment Re: made: 2013-09-17 18:30:58.458959+00 by: ebradway

That seems to match the findings about homework that you linked to earlier this week.