by Carrie Duncan | Aug 28, 2018 | Grades 6–8
I asked my 15-year-old what she learned today at school. She paused for a moment and then answered, “What did you learn at school today?” It took me a while to think about what I had learned (which will make me more patient when I ask her again tomorrow), and then I...
by Carrie Duncan | Jun 7, 2017 | Grades 3–5, Professional Learning
By William McCallum Somewhere back in days of Facebook fury about the Common Core there was a post from an outraged parent whose child had been marked wrong for something like this: $$ 6 \times 3 = 6 + 6 + 6 = 18. $$ Apparently the child was supposed to do $$ 6 \times...