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Tori Trajanovski, PhD student, Faculty of Education, York University, Canada

Why teachers are letting students solve math problems in lots of different ways

There are many ways to perform multiplication that will still count the same quantity. (Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages), CC BY-NC

Families might be wondering why their child’s math classroom looks so different from what they remember in school.

Why aren’t teachers putting students on the spot and getting them to prove that they know the math? Why are teachers letting students solve problems in lots of different ways instead of just telling them how to do it?

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