A few Chandler Traditional Academy parents are unhappy with a change in math curriculum at Chandler Unified School District. For two consecutive governing board meetings, parents have spoken up about ...

A retired military man turned math teacher almost singlehandedly started the “math wars” of the 1990s, says Nakonia Hayes. She’s a long-time teacher, former principal, and author of John Saxon’s Story ...

Two sets of early-grades math curricula, Saxon Math and Math Expressions, emerged as big winners in a major study released by Mathematica. A curriculum that’s drawn major heat from parents in some ...

“The new math is focused on exploration, where a question is posed and the student works, typically in a group setting, to figure out how to solve it. The algorithm is learned later, after the ...

Two programs for teaching mathematics in the early grades—Math Expressions and Saxon Math—emerge as winners in early findings released last week from a large-scale federal experiment that pits four ...