How do you find the area of a circle? What's Pythagorean's theorem? What's the difference between sine and cosine?
You don't remember, do you?
For many of us, it will have been 30 years or more when we start having to help our kids with their math homeowrk. Thirty years during which the most extensive math most of us have done is balancing the checkbook or counting the minutes between contractions. How are we supposed to help our kids with their homework when we don't even know how to do it ourselves?
Robison Elementary School in Tucson has the solution. And no, "Google it!" is not their solution. (Though that works, too.)
The school is offering math workshops to parents aimed at helping them help their kids. These workshops will teach the parents the same skills the kids are learning in the classroom, using techniques that may be unfamiliar to parents, like using "manipulatives" (whatever those are).
What do you think? Would you take a class like this one?
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