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Thursday, January 09, 2003
Posted
10:20 AM
by Susan Darst Williams
MATH FACTS GURUS COMING TO NEBRASKA
Does your district suffer from "chimp math"? If so, how can you get rid of it? Around the country, the model has been that one parent investigates a bad math curriculum and makes it a personal mission before the school board to get it stopped so that the district can go back to a real math program, such as Saxon Math (www.saxonpub.com).
Is that you? If so, go for it!
Good news: one of the best staff development companies in the country for teaching teachers how to teach math the correct way is coming to Nebraska twice this spring. Otter Creek Institute comes to Lincoln Jan. 17 and to Omaha April 21.
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