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| The website for parents in the Plainview - Old Bethpage school district who are concerned about the TERC Investigations Math curriculum and its impact on our children | ||||||
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Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth M.J. McDermott explains the current state of math education in 4th and 5th grades. |
Math Education: A University View Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences recites a devastating litany of problems with the education in-coming university students receive. |
Fifth grader Madeline shows us vivid examples of the differences between the TERC Investigations and the mastery math programs (Saxon Math and Singapore Math) she now uses. |
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The Investigations program is very bad because it omits standard computational methods, standard formulas, and standard terminology. TERC says this is now obsolete, due to the power of $5 calculators. They claim their program moves “beyond arithmetic” to offer "significant math," including important ideas from probability, statistics, 3-D geometry, and number theory. |
The Myths and Realities about "FUZZY MATH" by Sandra Stotsky For almost two decades, mathematics education in K-12 classrooms has been driven by unsupported pedagogical theories constructed in our schools of education and propagated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Their curricular and pedagogical "vision" for mathematics education reform, articulated in the two NCTM standards documents (1989 and 2000), has dominated local, state, and federal education decision-making and policies, as well as public discussions and press coverage. |
This web site is devoted to the concerns raised by parents and scientists about the invasion of our schools by the New-New Math and the need to restore basic skills to math education. Mathematics achievement in America is far below what we would like it to be. Recent "reform" efforts only aggravate the problem. As a result, our children have less and less exposure to rigorous, content-rich mathematics . |
| U.S. math woes add up to big trouble
There is a war raging all around us, a war the United States cannot afford to lose. No one has died in this war, and no one is likely to. But there are casualties. The injuries are mental rather than physical, but the suffering is lifelong. I'm not referring to the global war on terror or the war on drugs. I'm talking about the mathematics war. |
Petitioners call for changes to school math curriculum
By Wednesday afternoon, three days after traditional math advocate and Columbia Parents for Real Math founder Michelle Pruitt launched a petition to change the math curriculum in the Columbia Public Schools, more than 280 signatures had been collected on the online version of the petition. |
New-age math doesn't add upIt's called reform math, discovery math, constructivist math, fuzzy math. I think of it as new-age math, and believe it is one reason why last year nearly half the 10th-graders in Washington public schools failed the mathematics portion of the high-school graduation test. It is also one reason American kids do so poorly when measured against kids from Europe and East Asia. |
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NYC HOLD (Honest Open Logical Decisions on Mathematics Education Reform) was first established in order to address mathematics education in the New York City schools. |
Is your child falling behind and/or bored in math? Both of these can happen when your child is being taught with a constructivist-based math program such as TERC (pronounced "turk") Investigations. |
A non-partisan advocacy group of parents, educators, and community members who are working to ensure that Washington State mathematics education standards, curriculum, and assessments are coherent, academically focused, rigorous and comparable to those of top performing nations in the world. |
The Illinois Loop will help you understand your child's schoolAre you puzzled by your child's school? Mystified? Bewildered? We can help you. Be a lifelong learner! Think critically! Practice higher-order thinking skills! Be an agent for change! |
Teach Us MathTo secure a choice in math programs for Penfield Central School District students - traditional or constructivist math. In 1999, the Penfield Central School District replaced the traditional math programs with new constructivist math programs These changes have resulted in a significant decline in the math skills of Penfield students. |
Teach Utah KidsTeach Utah Kids is a group of parents concerned about the education of their children. We believe that parents must learn all they can about the programs that are being used in their children's schools. Those who teach our children must be provided with the best tools and programs available to assist them in educating our children. |
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Alpine District dumps controversial approach AMERICAN FORK — The Alpine School District's controversial math program — Investigations in Number, Data and Space — will soon be history. |
"Where's the Math?" is a question all Washington parents should ask State math curriculum doesn't add up On Monday, February 19, about 200 parents, teachers, and students held a rally at the Capitol Steps in Olympia asking the question, “Where’s the Math?” |
Can less equal more?Proposal to teach math students fewer concepts in greater depth has divided Md. educatorsThe class in Anne Arundel County's Marley Middle School represents to Santoro the best kind of teaching: students learning to understand the abstract thinking behind math rules and formulas. Too much of the time, Santoro believes, math teachers are flying over material, never giving students a deep grasp of the subject. |
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An A-Maze-ing Approach To Math I am not a mathematics teacher, but I have a degree in mathematics and an intense interest in how the subject is taught. When I retire, I would like to teach math, which is why I started tutoring high school students in my spare time three years ago. Confronted with what I thought could be a common problem, I was still unaware that what I was really seeing was a national crisis in mathematics education |
Critics contend math doesn’t add up
Patrick Crabtree watched his fourth-grade son struggle for hours to solve two math problems last year. It wasn’t that Connor Crabtree, now 11, didn’t know the answers, his father said. Connor is in the gifted program and has a head for numbers. But he didn’t know how to solve the problem the way he felt his teacher wanted him to. |
By advocating mastery of the traditional algorithms, the reformers' opponents have in fact established themselves as the defenders of conceptual thinking in the Math Wars. |
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The following are excerpted from two published examples of traditional mathematics problems and how Fuzzy Mathematics proposes to solve them. |
Wall St Journal article from Sept 13, 2006 New report urges return to basics in teaching math. The nation's math teachers, on the front lines of a 17-year curriculum war, are getting some new marching orders: Make sure students learn the basics. |
NY Times article November 14, 2006 SEATTLE For the second time in a generation, education officials are rethinking the teaching of math in American schools. The changes are being driven by students’ lagging performance on international tests. |
| MIDDLE-SCHOOL STRUGGLES ‘Reform math’ doesn’t add up, Dublin critics say. Debate over a controversial math program in Dublin has been multiplied by test results showing that middle-school students there are struggling to divide. |
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Official Site of Weapons of Math Destruction Dedicated to the disarmament of all fuzzy math weapons, this site takes the establishment head-on. The world is a dangerous place and there's no need to walk around in constant fear of some nuclear math weapon destroying your child's education. Join the fight. Sign up for our free comic subscription at the right and then spread the word. |
The Curriculum Focal Points are the most important mathematical topics for each grade level. They comprise related ideas, concepts, skills, and procedures that form the foundation for understanding and lasting learning |
The Courage to Be Constructivist
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| The Government Flunks Math
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. |
Middle School Mathematics Comparisons
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. Click here to download the entire document (pdf file 55 pages) |
Why Guilford Parents Should Oppose CMP Math by Bill Quirk
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. |
| An Evaluation of CMP by R. James Milgram
This is a wonderfully detailed and thorough analysis of Connected Math, approximately 22 pages in length. |
Arthur Hu Reviews 6th Grade Connnected
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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Plainview-Old Bethpage Board of Education The Plainview-Old Bethpage Board of Education establishes policies and adopts regulations for the operation of the district's eight public schools. Its seven members serve without pay and are elected by the qualified voters of the district for a term of three years. Responsibility for administering Board policies is vested in the Superintendent. |
Mr. Gerard W. Dempsey, Jr. Interim Superintendent of Schools 516-937-6301 Dr. Linda Bruno Roberta Silver Debbie Bernstein |
BOE members: Debbie Bernstein Gary Bettan Angel Cepeda Ginger Lieberman Jonathan Mosenson Evy Rothman Lori Weinstein |
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NYS Mathematics Core Curriculum (Revised March 2005) 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. Resource Guide with Core Curriculum (1999) |
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This page is brought to you by the POB Math Posse. A group of concerned parents in the Plainview-Old Bethpage School District. For more information about this website please contact info@pobmath.com
