'New math' gets update in Jackson's schools

It's one of elementary education's basic truths: Two plus two will always equal four.

But the way students arrive at that answer is changing in the Jackson School District.

A new math curriculum, implemented this year in kindergarten through fifth grade, has turned traditional teaching methods upside down, and left teachers and parents amazed at what students can do.

For more on this story, read Friday's Southeast Missourian.