Fuzzy Math
Bill Quirk’s insightful summary of the TERC Investigations program.
This is a wonderfully detailed and thorough analysis of Connected Math, approximately 22 pages in length.
An Evaluation of CMP by R. James Milgram
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Bill Quirk explains that all across the nation, parents, teachers, mathematician, and scientists have been working to expose the substantial defects in this “fuzzy math” program. This paper brings together representative quotes, with clickable links to the source documents.
Why Guildford, CT, Parents Should Oppose CMP Math by Bill Quirk
This report was written by several members of the Applied Mathematics Department at the University of Washington in 2001.
There are several significant admissions by the very people who are endorsing Connected Math. Their statements clearly show these programs are inferior and can harm the math abilities of our children.
Summary from Where’s the Math?
Complete report Middle School Mathematics Comparisons for Singapore Mathematics, Connected Mathematics Program, and Mathematics in Context: A Summary PDF, 55 pp.
James Milgram of Stanford University got curious about something called the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP), an intermediate-school math curriculum lately developed at Michigan State. So he carefully analyzed CMP’s sequence of 24 student booklets.
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