Viewpoint: Students learning math in new ways, with better
resultsIt’s not the math you remember from your childhood, and
it’s not even the same math our teachers were teaching two years
ago. By: Keith Ryskoski, 834 superintendent, Woodbury Bulletin
It’s not the math you remember from your childhood, and it’s not
even the same math our teachers were teaching two years ago. The
District 834 brand new elementary math curriculum, revealed in
classrooms at the start of the school year, is much more
rigorous and has students performing higher-levels of math at
earlier ages. It is also designed to be engaging with lessons to
challenge learners at all levels. Students are still learning to
add, subtract, multiply and divide, but the way they reach
answers to math problems may not look the same as you remember.
Brain research has shown us that children learn in a variety of
ways. The new math curriculum allows students to learn to solve
math problems in multiple ways, allowing them to find a method
that works best fo