Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 26. Today we are looking at Adding It Up.

It’s the start of the school year here in the U.S and for many educators that means a new math textbook. As I was reading back through the book Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics for my recent vlog post I was reminded why I really don’t like textbooks.

I believe they give everyone, the principal, the teacher, the parents, and so on a false sense of comfort.