Cap City/ELH/IT/MV reading and math
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Anonymous
| How are they teaching reading and math? Do they follow DCPS with Everyday Math? |
Anonymous
| MV doesn't start 1st grade until next year-- but officially the Math curriculum is Everyday Math following the Common Core Math Standards with DCPS. |
Anonymous
Pretty sure almost everybody uses EM except for KIPP. Maybe that explains why KIPP gets the best math scores. |
Anonymous
What approach does KIPP use. I am in one of those schools mentioned and I am not a fan of the math instruction. |
Anonymous
KIPP officially does not have a math curriculum and each school develops a curriculum with the math teachers. |
Anonymous
| But are their kids thinking? Or just producing test score? |
Anonymous
| My child is in a school using a constructivist approach to math. I pray that all of this "thinking" or conceptual knowledge makes it appearance before HS. It scary how long it takes to solve a problem. Meanwhile, his peers in other non charters are blowing past him in math. |
Anonymous
My understanding is that they use Saxon Math. Regardless, you can look up their Math scores, they blow everyone else out of the water. They're not "teaching to the test" they are mastering the concepts. Wish my kids' school would go for traditional math! (How is it that the majority of discerning parents seem to hate EM, yet the schools keep using it? Especially the charters, which can choose something better, and presumably are consumer-driven?) |
Anonymous
I don't have first hand experience with EM, but while touring some of the "best" private schools in the area, they mentioned everyday math. Is it that bad? Forget charters, why are parents paying $30K for the curriculum if it's that bad. I would bet that most middle and upper middle class kids math scores are good at the charters that teach EM. |
Anonymous
| Two Rivers switched from Everyday Math to teaching Envision Math this year. Anyone know how that is going? |
Anonymous
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Every Math is definitely challenging if utilized correctly. The workbooks alone are not enough. In many private schools, teachers use the textbook on a daily basis, give students all the supplementary work (3 reproductible booklets which come in the kit) and primarily use the textbook for homework.
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Anonymous
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p.p. here
I meant primarily use the workbooks for homework |