The previous article introduced Shunya Chart and demonstrated how it can help elementary students experience mathematics. In this article, I show how a mentor can help students explore elementary operation of addition and its properties (commutative property and associative property) in one go. In Saxon Math, the properties are not…

Algebra should be removed as a requirement for those not in STEM major, argued Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of the California community college in 2017. As per this NPR article, Say Goodbye To X+Y: Should Community Colleges Abolish Algebra?, “Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high…