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Questions 1 and 2 are not covered. Because there is no time to cover them, the class has no choice but to proceed under the assumption that those are already mastered. The worse a child is at math, ...

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...