The Alberta government has bent to pressure from parents for curriculum changes and will require students to memorize their multiplication tables starting this fall, dealing a setback to the ...

More than 50 professors and teachers have now signed a petition calling for a return to the conventional teaching of arithmetic, with a focus on students learning, practicing and mastering the basics ...

Well, if you haven’t been following the debate, I’ll offer you a primer today. The main issue is that the Alberta government has pushed schools towards teaching math in a newly-devised manner, using ...