How the Math Gets Done

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<span><span>How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don't Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math</span><span> provides a roadmap to understanding what the symbols for math operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide)</span><span>really</span><span> mean, what the clues are to interpret these symbols, and a kind of short story of how they evolved over time. to decipher the enigmatic squiggles of those verbs called operations.</span></span><br><span><span>How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don't Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math</span></span><br><span><span>compares the old and the new methods for math procedures from a Big Idea perspective by organizing the information in four sections: Definition, Organization, Relationships and Patterns, and Connections. Each section contains three chapters that clarify the issues related to each Big Idea section. The Conclusion offers parents even more hints and guidelines to help their child through this math country of procedures for calculating in math.</span></span>

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<span><span>Catheryne Draper</span><span> has been learning from her students for over half a century of teaching, supervising the math program in a school district, advising math education at the state level, coaching math in schools, and presenting math workshops for teachers.</span></span><br><span></span><br><span><span>She is the author of The Algebra Game, a hands-on multi-deck algebra program in four topics covering Linear Graphs, Quadratic Equations, Conic Sections, and Trig Functions that allows students to work together in cooperative groups, or individually, to identify the algebra relationships and patterns in the each topic and in the organization across the topics. In addition to contributing many published articles, Draper is also the author of</span><span>Winning the Math Homework Challenge: Insights for Parents To See Math Differently</span><span>and</span><span>User-Friendly Math for Parents</span><span>:</span><span>Learning and Understanding the Language of Numbers is Key.</span></span>

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