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Do The Math(tm) A Multi-Year Development Project
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Marilyn Burns, one of America’s most trusted math educators forms Math Solutions Professional Development, an organization dedicated to the improvement of math instruction in Grades K–8.
Working with a highly qualified team of inservice leaders, Marilyn offers specialized courses to teachers and administrators worldwide. Math Solutions becomes the country’s pre-eminent provider of professional development in math.
Marilyn’s work in thousands of schools provides her with unique insight into the needs of struggling learners. She turns her professional focus to developing curriculum for these students that will provide them with a solid foundation in arithmetic understanding and skills, and is designed to address the most common misconceptions she has observed.
Marilyn assembles a group of Math Solutions master teachers for this ambitious project. The team spends over two years drafting, testing, debating, and refining each lesson in the program under Marilyn’s leadership.
Marilyn partners with Scholastic to develop and publish the program.
The program is piloted in 7 schools and is enthusiastically embraced by teachers and students.
Scholastic publishes Do The Math, a new intervention program focusing on number and operations for students in Grades 2–8.
Scholastic enters into a partnerships with several large districts to document the efficacy of this program.
Math Solutions develops new two-day and five-day courses specifically designed to work with Do The Math, offering educators a full solution for raising achievement in math.