The Boston Globe, November 11th, 2001
It sounds so mundane, "Everyday Mathematics," like those dreary years of rote-driven arithmetic that parents now in their 40s slogged through as grade-schoolers. But packed into that name is a whole new way of looking at numbers that comes with a very clear message: Math isn't just for eggheads anymore. What kindergartner could resist measuring his feet with pennies for a lesson in estimation? Is there a third-grader who won't feel some thrill slipping behind the wheel of his parent's car to check the odometer for practice counting numbers in the tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousand...
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