Photo taken in a third grade classroom using Primary Mathematics. The teacher had posted the question on the board and students recorded the question and their solution in a math journal. Discuss. Scridb filter

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Photo credit Monica Lim There have been several items in various news outlets this past week. From Boston.com comes the story: Wellesley math teachers learn Singapore techniques from Tenacre specialist Although the Wellesley district  is not considering adopting a Singapore Math curriculum, they asked a a teacher from another school to demonstrate one of Singapore [...]

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David Marain over at MathNotations has been periodically tweeting an SAT problem of the day via @dmarain. A recent series of tweets asked: A 42 oz mix of nuts is 6 parts peanuts to 1 part cashews. How many ounces of cashews must be added to make a make the mixture 2 parts cashews to [...]

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