A few years ago a British politician, Stephen Byers, made a harmless error in an interview. The right honorable
minister was asked to give the answer to 7 x 8 and he gave the answer of 54, instead of the correct
56. His error prompted widespread ridicule in the national media, accompanied by calls for a stronger emphasis
on ‘times table’ memorization in schools. This past September the Conservative education minister
for England, a man with no education experience, insisted that all students in England memorize all their
times tables up to 12 x 12 by the age of 9. This requirement has now been placed into the UK’s mathematics
curriculum and will result, I predict, in rising levels of math anxiety and students turning away from mathematics
in record numbers. The US is moving in the opposite direction, as the new Common Core State
Standards (CCSS) de-emphasize the rote memorization of math facts. Unfortunately misinterpretations
of the meaning of the word ‘fluency’ in the CCSS are commonplace and publishers continue to emphasize
rote memorization, encouraging the persistence of damaging classroom practices across the United States.
A few years ago a British politician, Stephen Byers, made a harmless error in an interview. The right honorableminister was asked to give the answer to 7 x 8 and he gave the answer of 54, instead of the correct56. His error prompted widespread ridicule in the national media, accompanied by calls for a stronger emphasison ‘times table’ memorization in schools. This past September the Conservative education ministerfor England, a man with no education experience, insisted that all students in England memorize all theirtimes tables up to 12 x 12 by the age of 9. This requirement has now been placed into the UK’s mathematicscurriculum and will result, I predict, in rising levels of math anxiety and students turning away from mathematicsin record numbers. The US is moving in the opposite direction, as the new Common Core StateStandards (CCSS) de-emphasize the rote memorization of math facts. Unfortunately misinterpretationsof the meaning of the word ‘fluency’ in the CCSS are commonplace and publishers continue to emphasizerote memorization, encouraging the persistence of damaging classroom practices across the United States.
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