Thursday, July 12, 2012
Meanwhile - in the U.K. - "Children go back to basics in maths"
The U.K. Telegraph's Graeme Paton recently reported this:
"A draft mathematics curriculum suggests that five and six year-olds will be expected to count up to 100, recognise basic fractions and memorise the results of simple sums by the end of the first year of compulsory education. In the second year, they will be required to know the two, five and 10 times tables, add and subtract two-digit numbers in their head and begin to use graphs."
That's reported by Laura Clark in the U.K. Daily Mail:
"Thousands of teachers go back to school to learn basic maths and grammar so they can deliver tough new lessons"