** “The rituals and rhythms of summer are seductive. Long, light-filled days. Afternoons in the neighborhood swimming pool. Fresh tomatoes plucked off the vine. When I was a child, summers gave me freedom to roam on my bike, to pick berries, to play sandlot softball with friends. The leisurely summer is deeply embedded in communal memory. It occupies so central a place in American popular culture that it would be difficult to abolish. But it’s time to do so. The long summer vacation has outlived its usefulness.” ~ Cynthia Tucker, The Philadelphia Inquirer
** ” Developmental research shows even very young children have a fundamental grasp of fractions that can be built on through instruction. But, if children are taught math in a way that’s very rote, where they memorize procedures . . . it really doesn’t help you much.” ~ Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week
** “The vast majority of the human race, and the vast majority of the college-educated human race, never need any mathematics beyond arithmetic to survive successfully. ~ Underwood Dudley, number theorist