Fuzzy Math
Wheresthemath.com has posted a new video featuring interviews with parents about fuzzy math and the problems it creates.
- Graphs shown in the movie: Comparison of Math Testing for Bellevue School District and Washington State
- Iowa Testing Program: Math Test Results for Washington School Districts
- TERC Investigations fractions homework example from the movie: Brownie Sharing Challenge
Henican & White – June 14, 2007
Ellis Henican and Lynne White talk about “New Math.”
The New York Times article says, in part:
Dr. Brooks, a superintendent on Long Island, is the latest casualty in the math wars, felled by parents who complain that their children have failed to learn basic skills in one of the top-performing school districts in New Jersey. After consulting math professors and hiring private tutors, the parents flooded the Internet — and the local newspaper, The Ridgewood News — with concerns about what is known as reform math, collecting more than 175 signatures on a petition calling for an overhaul of math instruction in six of the district’s nine schools.
The Bergen Record reports:
High-achieving parents, worried that non-traditional math lessons will cause their children to fall behind, are demanding a return to the basics.
More at VORMath
“I am shocked to realize that the Dale Seymour Connected Mathematics is just as harmful for middle school as Investigations is for elementary school.”
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