kitchen table math, the sequel

terrific set of charts, graphs, and summaries

Debbie took the SAT today ! A hundred kids in line waiting for accommodations -- and they separate the twins.

A teacher in my town posted a link to this story : The Lab School ( Lab School at US News ) has selective admissions, and Ms. Isaacson’s ...

re: Richard Elmore's observation that family's time is a gift, not an entitlement: This is exactly how I feel about most of my kids...

A problem from Dr. John Chung's SAT Math : Between 500 and 1000, how many integers are multiples of 5? page 68 How do I read this? A...

C. and I both got question 15 on page 773 in the Blue Book wrong. 15. The Acme Plumbing Company will send a team of 3 plumbers to work on...

re: math & writing : In both math and writing, the core idea that you are trying to express exists somewhere in the aether. In both ma...

It would be an enormous step forward if adults in schools treated the time that children and their families give to schools as a precious gi...

Ralph Gardner on math versus writing : I don't want to say I'm skeptical about the idea of a museum devoted to mathematics. Indeed,...

It’s standardized test time in Connecticut and my child will be busy participating in this painfully drawn-out process over the next couple ...

I caught a few minutes of a school board budget meeting in the school district next to mine, which happens to be near the one that is the ...

A good article in the Times today . The only problem is that it doesn't mention the Triborough Amendment , which you need to know some...

C. and I take sample SAT tests together every day just about.....and I make bubbling errors. Bubbling errors! I bubble in the wrong bubb...

Anonymous left this comment : Several schools in our school district (Washington County Utah) have started doing this kind of assessment a...

Just put up a post at the Parents Forum .

“In education, data has traditionally been used for punitive purposes, not for improvement...” March 7, 2011, 10:05 pm Coming Together to ...

Middle School Mathematics Institute (MSMI) is alive and well with lots of progress. MSMI's mission is to help teachers, schools, and pa...

A friend of ours who sits on the board of a private school watched the Terc Investigations video a couple of weeks ago. Until he saw it, he...

I want to check my reasoning with all of you. Yesterday the Times carried a long editorial on the subject of New York's public sector ...

re: memorization is a dirty word , Magister Green offers this advice : I have found that using "automaticity" in place of "m...