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How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don’t Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math provides a roadmap to understanding what the symbols for math operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) really mean, what the clues are to interpret these symbols, and a kind of short story of how they evolved over time. to decipher the enigmatic squiggles of those verbs called operations. How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don’t Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math compares the old and the new methods for math procedures from a ‚ÄúBig Idea‚Äù perspective by organizing the information in four sections: Definition, Organization, Relationships and Patterns, and Connections. Each section contains three chapters that clarify the issues related to each ‚ÄúBig Idea‚Äù section. The Conclusion offers parents even more hints and guidelines to help their child through this ‚Äúmath country‚Äù of procedures for calculating in math.