NYC's new math curriculum doesn't seem to add up

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NYC's new math curriculum doesn't seem to add up
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NYC launch additional learning tools for kids who 'fear math'

a new public-school math curriculum aimed at improving math scores by helping kids overcome their supposed “fear of math” — which already had us doubting it.

NYC official reveals plunging math scores at schools using new DOE curriculum: ‘Decline across the city’The idea is that classroom discussion helps students come to understand the concepts in a way that rote memorization and step-by-step instruction don’t.can’t teach, but is that the “fear of math” that schools Chancellor David Banks is really looking to confront here?

Yet nearly all the city’s 420 high schools must use Illustrative Math this year, up from 265 last year.

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