Eureka math

[Anonymous]

I’m sure there are a million threads on this already, but honestly, who do I complain to about starting this with 5th graders???? It’s completely ruining our year and causing so many problems every night when we sit down to do homework. Completely hurting my daughters already fragile confidence about academics. Worst decision ever and so irresponsible

[Anonymous]

I wish we had it at our 5th vs. the random worksheets we get. At least I could buy the workbooks and textbooks for home and help figure it out.

[Anonymous]

My sister is a 5th grade teacher in MoCo. It's criminal that this is being implemented. Someone should get fired for this stupid program.

[Anonymous]

Ok. This is what you do. You google NY eureka math and lesson number. You will get the teachers guide to teaching the lesson and the worksheet with answers. Sit down with your kid and guide them step by step through the problem.

It will help you to teach your child to see the logic. I don’t think they the same in middle school, right? It’s one year. Just get through it.

[Anonymous]

For people who don't have kids in the affected schools, could you be more specific about the problems?

Does Eureka Math inherently have problems in instruction? Is it more a transition problem because we're introducing it to fifth graders who are accustomed to doing things the MCPS way and have missed K-4 explanations on the Eureka way?

With this being an election year, I'd like to make sure BOE candidates address curriculum issues, but I don't know what the issues are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sister is a 5th grade teacher in MoCo. It's criminal that this is being implemented. Someone should get fired for this stupid program.

The issue is the kids weren't adequately prepared with prior math classes and the teachers never learned to teach math the old way let alone the new way so they are expecting kids to figure it out on their own. I'm glad for the changes and a real curriculum.

[Anonymous]

The curriculum is awful and confusing. Homework should reinforce the concepts that are firmly established during the school day lesson. Attempting to teach this curriculum to my children is a daunting prospect even for me a former lower school teacher.

[Anonymous]

We hate it at my school. Waaaaay too many strategies and not much time to teach any one of them. Jack of all trades, master of none should be what it is called.

[Anonymous]

5th grade teacher here. I agree it’s rough starting in 5th. But you gotta start sometime. Eureka has a lot of really good models and methods that are very different than we learned as kids. When you see it over multiple grades you see the coherence of it. But yes, there should be more support and adjustments for the first year since kids don’t have years of building to this. I would suggest signing up for a free Zearn account. It exactly follows Eureka and reteaches the lessons. You can print a packet to work along with the videos. You can also go back to earlier grade levels if you want more foundations.

[Anonymous]

I hated it at first (my DC is a 1st grader). But now as we go along, I see the value in Eureka Math. It builds a good foundation. But granted, it should not be thrust on 5th graders who do not have that foundation from K or 1st.

[Anonymous]

I see the value in a program, but it should have rolled out to only k-1 the first year and built up like they did the last curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok. This is what you do. You google NY eureka math and lesson number. You will get the teachers guide to teaching the lesson and the worksheet with answers. Sit down with your kid and guide them step by step through the problem.

It will help you to teach your child to see the logic. I don’t think they the same in middle school, right? It’s one year. Just get through it.

I love it! Really? I mean, I'm willing to do this. And, OP might be willing to do this. But lots of parents are not able to, or are not willing to do this. What happens to their kids?

Surely this will help close the achievement gap, right? Way to go, MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5th grade teacher here. I agree it’s rough starting in 5th. But you gotta start sometime. Eureka has a lot of really good models and methods that are very different than we learned as kids. When you see it over multiple grades you see the coherence of it. But yes, there should be more support and adjustments for the first year since kids don’t have years of building to this. I would suggest signing up for a free Zearn account. It exactly follows Eureka and reteaches the lessons. You can print a packet to work along with the videos. You can also go back to earlier grade levels if you want more foundations.

This is my first year teaching the curriculum and I love it SO much more than 2.0. Now, I wouldn't have said that in September because the pacing and prep was kicking my ass but I'm finally beginning to see some pay offs in terms of student performance. My 4th and 5th grade teachers are having a tough time trying to fill in gaps but we were doing a disservice to our students with 2.0. We simply weren't teaching the standards to the rigor in which they are written. I haven't tried Zearn but it's worth exploring. I know this doesn't help OP's child but I think we're going to see much stronger mathematical understanding among students in the next couple of years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok. This is what you do. You google NY eureka math and lesson number. You will get the teachers guide to teaching the lesson and the worksheet with answers. Sit down with your kid and guide them step by step through the problem.

It will help you to teach your child to see the logic. I don’t think they the same in middle school, right? It’s one year. Just get through it.

I love it! Really? I mean, I'm willing to do this. And, OP might be willing to do this. But lots of parents are not able to, or are not willing to do this. What happens to their kids?

Surely this will help close the achievement gap, right? Way to go, MCPS.[/]

Look, I get it. The system sucks and it is not fair.

My DC is in high school and in advanced math. He’s naturally talented in math. He started eureka math in 5th grade in DCPS and it was a nightmare— it started to destroy his confidence in math and honestly I had no idea why it all had to be so complicated (btw:it doesn’t). So I taught my kid about how to use the system to his advantage. Tbh, sometimes we would start with the answer and work backwards. Once he could see the logic he understood the process. It’s fifth grade. Just get through it. It will be better next year and then you can deal with an hour of boring online math homework every weekend. That sucks too.

[Anonymous]

We think it is much better than old curriculum.... K and 3rd graders