Monthly Archives: January 2011

I can say that I had nothing to do with the Common Core standards. (Not bitter.) Big question: what is going to be possible to do this time that it wasn’t possible to do before? There are echoes of the … Continue reading →

I’m on a panel right now where Gladis Kersaint is reporting about a report of the four mathematics teaching organizations in the title. (I cannot resist the temptation to give this initiative the meta-acronym NANA, whose logo should be a … Continue reading →

Maria Teresa Tatto from Michigan State University is presenting about the TEDS-M study, an enormous study which looked at teacher countries from Poland to Botswana. It surveyed institutions of teacher education, teacher educators, primary teachers and secondary teachers, for both … Continue reading →

Jason Zimba is working on a technical manual that will describe higher order structures in the Common Core standards, such as flows, streams, and ties. Here is an example of what is meant by a flow. What I like about this … Continue reading →

Interesting article about testing in the New York times, which argues that the effort of retrieving information helps learning. Marcia Linn’s comment is relevant to the Illustrative Mathematics Project: “More testing isn’t necessarily better,” said Dr. Linn, who said her … Continue reading →