Monday, August 11, 2008
In Our Schools - Changing the Math
My generation seems to handle math pretty well.
Since then, the teaching of math has been changed and "improved" a zillion times.
Can you see what I see?...
Since then, the teaching of math has been changed and "improved" a zillion times.
Can you see what I see?...
In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Laura Diamond reports:
"Georgia parents were outraged after thousands of students failed statewide math exams in May.
Now with the start of a new school year, parents fear for their children as the state expands the new math curriculum to high schools.
Fayette County parent Wendy Ashabranner worries how her son will handle this new math when he starts at Fayette County High on Monday. He was among the 38 percent of the state's eighth-graders who failed the state's new, redesigned math exam, which was based on harder material.
While parents and teachers expected some students to struggle with the new math, they were shocked by the high failure rates.
'It's a trust factor, and I'm very leery of trusting the state,' she said. 'I know they're hoping these new standards will work, but what if it backfires? It's our kids who will pay the price. Why are they using our kids as guinea pigs?'"
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Can you see what I see?...
I don't know, Steve. Perhaps if you were to be more specific -- what do you see?
And how much math do you know? I doubt if you know much since you really sound like a Republican groupie and that's generally a pretty ignorant lot.
P.s. I'm out of here now. I was attempting to research the origins of a 'Frog Theory' article and you seem somehow to have come up in my links.
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I don't know, Steve. Perhaps if you were to be more specific -- what do you see?
And how much math do you know? I doubt if you know much since you really sound like a Republican groupie and that's generally a pretty ignorant lot.
P.s. I'm out of here now. I was attempting to research the origins of a 'Frog Theory' article and you seem somehow to have come up in my links.
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