Would the use of Everyday math turn you off?
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Anonymous
| How long will you continue to sock puppet this topic? |
Anonymous
| What you guys are totally missing is how the end users feel about this EDM. I really don't care what the experts, or University professors think is the right cuurriculum. Do you know how frustrated the kids and even the school teachers are with EDM ? Often, they provide the answers without even knowing how they got got it. If an average school teacher cannot make the fundamental mathematical concepts clear to 95% of the class, the whole effort will be a faillure. However, 5% children may be genius to absorb any concept. This EDM surely, is going to ruin the basic understanding of maths and confuse the kids, parents and the teachers who form the chore group of end users ! |
Anonymous
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WES adopted EnVisionMATH (Singapore Math program) starting this year. I hope the NYT article below (that was posted in another thread) contributes to the discussion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 30, 2010 Making Math Lessons as Easy as 1, Pause, 2, Pause ... By WINNIE HU FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. — By the time they get to kindergarten, children in this well-to-do suburb already know their numbers, so their teachers worried that a new math program was too easy when it covered just 1 and 2 — for a whole week. “Talk about the number 1 for 45 minutes?” said Chris Covello, who teaches 16 students ages 5 and 6. “I was like, I don’t know. But then I found you really could. Before, we had a lot of ground to cover, and now it’s more open-ended and gets kids thinking.” [ Edited to comply with copyright laws. ] |
Anonymous
| A textbook is not a curriculum. |
Anonymous
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My child did Everyday Math in our local public school in FCPS. I hated it, but not because I couldn't understand it. It DOES explain alternate methods of coming up with solutions for multiplication problems or division. But it doesn't ever explain the most basic method like regular long division or multiplication.
My child is in 5th grade now, and over the summer I was doing some basic review before starting a new school (we moved). I gave her a problem like 15x23. She didn't know the basic way to multiply, and it was taking her 10 minutes using Everyday Math methods. Ugh! I understand the alternative methods being presented (if there is time) because it gives a better understanding of what you are actually doing when you multiply or divide. But as the most common method for solving problems? No! Our new school uses EnVision Math, and I am much happier with it. |
Anonymous
EnVision is NOT singapore math. |
Anonymous
Envision is not Singapore Math http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2009/03/a_skirmish_in_the_math_wars_de.html |
Anonymous
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This is exactly how I feel about Envision Math although I would replace depth with breadth. Not sure if this is part of the new US curriculum or not. It doesn't have enough several step problems to figure out.
Others applauded enVision Math's focus on "depth" but worried that it was too easy and "treats math as a sequence of little ideas rather than big ideas." |
Anonymous
| I love the Montessori math materials. I'm surprised they aren't more widespread outside of montessori classrooms. |