E-School News – Gina Piero
“In the past few years, the Common Core has significantly altered the landscape in terms of mathematics education. For starters, it has demanded more focus, coherence, and rigor in the ways we teach math. As a result, our district, Worthington City Schools in Ohio, has narrowed the amount of topics we cover at each grade level, diving deeper into each topic in order to gain solid conceptual understanding, a high degree of procedural skill and fluency, and the ability to apply math to solve problems inside and outside the classroom.”(more)