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These experts say memorizing your times tables is important (Matthew Burns, federal Institute of Education Studies, National Mathematics Advisory Panel). But the 2023 California Math Curriculum Framework (CMF) says never mind! The CMF - how to make poor math proficiency even
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@NYSEDNews Commissioner @nypost
@rastokke
@JoanneLeeJacobs
@ToddTruitt76508
@minilek
@MrDanielBuck
@pondiscio
@SBECalifornia
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Your recommendations won’t improve NY students’ math proficiency, but will instead make it worse.
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The IES Practice Guide says that memorizing times tables/math facts through timed tests is key — one of the IES’s top six recommendations is to "regularly include timed activities as one way to build fluency in mathematics."
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You realize that the Dept of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide, “Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades” ( https://t.co/o0g8RP6QAj), completely disagrees with you, right?
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What evidence do you have that math ‘quizzes’ lead to math anxiety? Hopefully you’re not relying on Dr. Jo Boaler’s work, as she has produced no evidence this is true
Also, "Boaler has persuaded many math teachers that timed tests cause math anxiety. A recent peer-reviewed study by leading educational psychologists found Boaler’s math anxiety allegation to be false."
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What evidence do you have that students can be successful without this skill? @NYSEDNews Commissioner @nypost
@rastokke
@JoanneLeeJacobs
@ToddTruitt76508
@minilek
@MrDanielBuck
@pondiscio
@SBECalifornia
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Tell us how NY students, without memorizing their times tables, will do multiples, prime factorization, calculate least common multiples, greatest common divisors, least common denominators, and find the simplest form of fractions?
nypost.com
State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa & Co. are moving to recommend that teachers stop giving timed math quizzes lest they overstress students.
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Link to NCTM annual conference and sessions: https://t.co/o0m9pqVRN3. .
Why did I write about the upcoming conference for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics? Because THIS is on the agenda. Read my piece here: https://t.co/qCDrLiD6EP
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Dr. Boaler’s ‘Railside’ study is not evidence for detracking or for a reform oriented teaching approach. See:
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From (A Close Examination of Jo Boaler’s Railside Report pg. 5)
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47/n ‘Railside’ remains in the Oct. ‘23 CMF though, even though it was debunked years ago. And while the CMF is intended to be guidance, it may still influence millions of CA school children through pushing its reform-oriented math education approach — and it serves as the
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46/n Yet much of Dr. Boaler’s work that was included and referenced in prior versions of the Oct. ‘23 CMF (“Limitless Mind,” ‘How one city got math right,’ ‘Everyone Can Learn Mathematics to High Levels,’ ‘Solving the Math Problem,’ ‘The Transformative Impact..,’ ‘Research
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45/n Further, Dr. Boaler was one of the CMF’s five authors, and is considered the most frequently cited research author in the CMF ( https://t.co/z4TLYBlB1W).
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44/n Evidence should mean verifiable evidence based upon standardized assessments or at least assessments with proven reliability and validity, not research-team created custom assessments.
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