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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2764: New Math

Posted on March 22, 2022 · Episode: 2764 The New Math Movement. Today, a revolutionary idea — that failed.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2760: No Math

Posted on March 17, 2022 · Episode: 2760 Mathematics and the Early 1900s Progressive Education Movement. Today, doing away with math.

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Texas students in grades 3-8 make significant gains in STAAR tests, while lower math scores linger

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Posted on July 5, 2022 · While Texas students have not regained all the ground they lost in math during the pandemic, scores across all grades were higher in 2022 than they were in 2021. Reading proficiency, on the other hand, appears to have fully recovered.

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