International Academy of Education. KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN MATHEMATICAL PEDAGOGY. Critical Mathematics Pedagogy: Transforming Teachers’ Practices. Four habits of highly effective math teaching. A Better Way to Teach Math. How To: Teach Math. Best practices in Teaching Mathematics. Lebanon schools turn algebra into child's play. LEBANON -- Lori Haley and Mya Corbett hunch over a pile of yellow hexagons, trying to figure out how many hexagonal tables it would take to seat 25 guests. The pair want to get the answer, but what they're really itching to do is to come up with a formula that will tell them how many people they could seat for any given number of tables. Suddenly, the girls detect a pattern, and one shouts: "(t x 4) + 2 = s! " They try it on one table, two tables, eight tables -- it works. They beam, flashing smiles that still feature baby teeth. Lori and Mya just started third grade. While most high schools in Oregon and across the nation struggle to get freshmen to pass algebra, one school district is trying something very different.
Are you smarter than a fifth-grader? Lebanon, which educates 4,000 students in eight schools, is pushing algebra on students as early as first grade. No flash cards Visit a Lebanon elementary math class, and you will see: Smarter than you think Lebanon schools shine in math. Matematicalia.