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Playing Chess with Learning: Jim Mamer on Math Reform That Lasts
Playing Chess with Learning: Jim Mamer on Math Reform That Lasts
Posted by Carlos Lopez Gonzalez on 2026-03-26

OCTM leader Jim Mamer sat down with Carlos Lopez Gonzalez and Michael Todd Edwards to discuss what it really takes to sustain math reform: strong tasks, coherent curriculum, and long-term support for teachers. "The tasks matter," Mamer says. "If we have 20 math teachers in a district, and everybody's individually making up their own things, we're not running a system." Reflecting on decades in [...]

Volume 103 • 2026 • Summer 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18061/ojsm.issue.379


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