Mathematics Family Nights
If you’ve been on social media lately you’ve probably seen posts from parents who are frustrated while helping their children with their mathematics homework. It appears that there is a “new way” of doing math that is different from the “old way” that many parents learned when they were in school. In reality, the changes are not as extreme as is often portrayed but it is still important that we take time to learn together as a community about some new approaches and how this is helping our students to learn. On the evenings of April 27th, May 25th and June 16th from 5:30pm-6:30pm our goal is to have a series of Mathematics Family Nights for parents to learn more about the shifts in teaching of Mathematics, the reasons for these shifts, and most importantly, how understanding these shifts will help us to better support our students. These workshops will take place at North Reading High School and will feature classroom teachers and Title 1 Math support teachers at all ...