How the Math Gets Done

How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Dont Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math provides a roadmap to understanding what the symbols for math operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) really mean, what the clues are to interpret these symbols, and a kind of short story of how they evolved over time. to decipher the enigmatic squiggles of those verbs called operations.How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Dont Need to Worry About New vs. Old Mathcompares the old and the new methods for math procedures from a ';Big Idea' perspective by organizing the information in four sections: Definition, Organization, Relationships and Patterns, and Connections. Each section contains three chapters that clarify the issues related to each ';Big Idea' section. The Conclusion offers parents even more hints and guidelines to help their child through this ';math country' of procedures for calculating in math.