Thoughts on Eureka Math ?

[Anonymous]

Major improvement compared to last year!

[Anonymous]

I like it too

[Anonymous]

I have no idea because our lazy principal didn’t take up any new curriculum this year (math or ELA). “2.0 works great!” was what she told us in a PTA meeting when someone asked why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea because our lazy principal didn’t take up any new curriculum this year (math or ELA). “2.0 works great!” was what she told us in a PTA meeting when someone asked why.

Not every school could pilot a new curriculum. Principals made a request 2 years ago to pilot either math or literacy, found out if their request would be honored and then it was delayed a year due to the disaster with Erick Lang. Then once the new curricula was selected, the original requests were honored. Many schools aren't doing either new curriculum this year but eventually every school will be doing both.

[Anonymous]

I literally JUMPED at the chance to get a new curriculum as soon as we were given the offer two years ago. So glad we did. Eureka has been a tremendous improvement over C 2.0 math. Students are so much more engaged and best of all, no Chromebooks required.

[Anonymous]

It is a solid math program that does a good job of covering the concepts in common core math. Many (if not most) of the ways of covering a concept are borrowed from Singapore Math. This quote is taken from their material:

Eureka Math / EngageNY K-5 is founded on proven strategies from Singapore Math®, including the concrete-pictorial-abstract learning sequence and model drawing strategies.

However, the BIG drawback of Eureka math is that there are NO student textbooks. There are workbooks but there is no way for the student or parent to look back and see how the lesson was covered if the student was absent or needs further explanations. Districts love it because it is FREE, they just have to pay the cost of the printing. I have no idea if they were inspired and copied ideas from Singapore Math (Marshall Cavanaugh publishing) why they didn't create a textbook. Perhaps because they knew districts would love a fee source and books cost money. In my opinion this is a big mistake. I would go to Singapore math dot com and buy a text book so you can see how the problems are supposed to be worked out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea because our lazy principal didn’t take up any new curriculum this year (math or ELA). “2.0 works great!” was what she told us in a PTA meeting when someone asked why.

Not every school could pilot a new curriculum. Principals made a request 2 years ago to pilot either math or literacy, found out if their request would be honored and then it was delayed a year due to the disaster with Erick Lang. Then once the new curricula was selected, the original requests were honored. Many schools aren't doing either new curriculum this year but eventually every school will be doing both.

There is absolutely no need to defend our principal. She is awful, as the survey results posted on the MCPS website routinely find, with both parents and teachers/staff giving the school management extremely low ratings. My hope is that she will be gone next year, but I doubt she will. She didn’t want to pilot either curriculum because that would be more work for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea because our lazy principal didn’t take up any new curriculum this year (math or ELA). “2.0 works great!” was what she told us in a PTA meeting when someone asked why.

Not every school could pilot a new curriculum. Principals made a request 2 years ago to pilot either math or literacy, found out if their request would be honored and then it was delayed a year due to the disaster with Erick Lang. Then once the new curricula was selected, the original requests were honored. Many schools aren't doing either new curriculum this year but eventually every school will be doing both.

There is absolutely no need to defend our principal. She is awful, as the survey results posted on the MCPS website routinely find, with both parents and teachers/staff giving the school management extremely low ratings. My hope is that she will be gone next year, but I doubt she will. She didn’t want to pilot either curriculum because that would be more work for her.

I’m the PP and I believe you. I’ve thought my principal is awful but we got a new AP this year who is downright awful and makes my principal actually look good by default. Just FYI, on the survey there’s no actual question about admin. The wording is “leadership”, which our principal told us that MCPS reads that as the school instructional leadership team which is comprised of our peers. So there is no actual question about school administrators. Typical MCPS. Then they’d actually have to do something about ineffective administrators if they couldn’t pretend they didn’t know about the problem.

[Anonymous]

Too many expectations that teachers have tons of materials. We have already spent more money on it than I would like to. No, I don't have craft beads sitting around to make these counting bracelets. I've been to Michael's twice already for this stuff and we don't get reimbursed.

[Anonymous]

The Eureka homework comes home with an explanation sheet explaining how to do the problems. If you keep the sheets then you basically have a textbook. Punch them and put them in a 3 ring notebook if you really want something that looks more like a textbook than a stack of papers.

[Anonymous]

My first grader is so bored with the level of what he is learning. The teacher said that they can't do different math groups based on skill with Eureka and they all have to do the same level.

[Anonymous]

How does Eureka account for compacted 4/5 and 5/6 flowing into MS IM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Eureka homework comes home with an explanation sheet explaining how to do the problems. If you keep the sheets then you basically have a textbook. Punch them and put them in a 3 ring notebook if you really want something that looks more like a textbook than a stack of papers.

You can find the teacher materials online. Find your grade and bookmark it.

[Anonymous]

My first grader is so bored with the level of what he is learning. The teacher said that they can't do different math groups based on skill with Eureka and they all have to do the same level.

My third grader and a handful of other kids are getting extra math work beyond the Eureka workbooks so teachers can find ways to differentiate.

I like that there are homework helper pages that come home so that I can understand HOW math is now being taught and explain it to my kids the same way their teachers do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too many expectations that teachers have tons of materials. We have already spent more money on it than I would like to. No, I don't have craft beads sitting around to make these counting bracelets. I've been to Michael's twice already for this stuff and we don't get reimbursed.

If my student was your class, I would want to know so I could purchase some of these items for the classroom. We provide Lysol wipes, tissues, etc to our teacher, so why not craft materials (or whatever Eureka uses)?