When Juan arrived, a woman answered the door, and insisted that the boy he was looking for didn't live there.
They arrived at an answer late one night.
Division work sheets prompt learners to calculate quickly and precisely, with less emphasis on demonstrating how a student arrived at an answer.
But when the situation was less clear-cut, the stutters used different parts of the brain -- especially the right side -- and arrived at an answer more slowly.
BEN MCGRATH: Let me address the first part of Tim's comment, because it's something that interested me, too, even if I never quite arrived at an answer, which is this: Why now?
A decade ago, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics galvanized math educators from kindergarten through high school by preaching that it was more important for students to understand how they arrived at an answer, rather than the answer itself.
Overall, participants provided clear explanations for how they responded to the questions and arrived at an answer for all four PSS items.
You submitted a question through a form and several DAYS (yes, days) later an email arrived with an answer.
I believe that the math standards confuse students with an over-reliance on word problems, and by focusing their attention on explaining how they arrived at an answer.
In general, being able to explain how you arrived at an answer – not just memorizing a formula – is also one of the standards' key goals for students.
