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PROOF POINTS: Do math drills help children learn?

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class.  This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division? Speed drills are such a routine part of the weekly rhythms of many math classrooms that they’re often […]