According to the study, charter school students did end the school year with reading skills eight instructional days ahead of public school children, but with comparable math instruction.
There are three hours of homework a night, three weeks of summer math instruction.
Today the emphasis of most math instruction is on — to use the new lingo — numerical reasoning.
Ms. Tuttle uses two home-schooling programs, Saxon (saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com) and Singapore (www.singaporemath.com), for math instruction.
They might learn to count, for example, but typically get no further math instruction.
at a TED conference on math instruction seemed to sum up the prevailing thinking: "Stop teaching calculating.Start teaching math".
And tutoring services say that they are seeing an epidemic of children coming to them for basic math instruction.
High-quality early childhood programs provide early literacy and early math instruction while also incorporating creative play.
The new report does not call for a national math curriculum, or for new federal investment in math instruction.
Does this mean that officials want me to replace my student-centered arts instruction with math instruction?
For instance, 63 percent of superintendents said they had not found the department's efforts helpful in improving math instruction, and 59 percent said the same of improving literacy.
