I’m back in touch with Carolyn Johnston! (Carolyn and I started the original Kitchen Table Math together.)
Carolyn used to write about the fraction issue in math education. When they hit fractions, students fall off the math cliff.
(How well do I remember the summer after C’s 8th grade year, or maybe it was the summer before, when we discovered he couldn’t figure a 10% tip!)
I remember Carolyn talking about nursing students who had washed out of their programs because they couldn’t do fractions.
So I thought of her yesterday when I saw this:
Catherine & Katharine 