The Issues
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.
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The Stratford (CT) Star’s article entitled, The children cheered in one third-grade class at Lordship Elementary School this year when their teacher said it was time for math includes this:
The new curriculum shifted the focus from a constructivist teaching approach to a more traditional one, and replaced all the math textbooks with new ones that were easier for students, parents and teachers to understand.
The PreK-8 portion of this core became effective in September of 2005. The first state level administration of the Integrated Algebra Regents Exam will be in June 2008, Geometry will be administered in June 2009, and Algebra 2 and Trigonometry will be administered in June 2010.
During this transitional period and until the last administration of Math B (June 2010), the commencement level portion of both the NYS Mathematics Core Curriculum (Revised March 2005) and Mathematics Resource Guide with Core Curriculum (1999) are in effect.
“I am shocked to realize that the Dale Seymour Connected Mathematics is just as harmful for middle school as Investigations is for elementary school.”
Bill Quirk’s insightful summary of the TERC Investigations program.
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