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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crappy curriculum.  Look at a modern math book and you will see tons of words and brutally no math.  For many many children, math requires practice and repetition.  Modern math doesn’t build that in and there is this concept of touching on topics and then moving to another and then “spiraling back.” That is a crappy model because for many kids the are barely getting the concept and then the curriculum moves on and they don’t see it again for several months.  It’s a crappy model used all over the country in both public and private schools and it’s terrible.  Math scores prove it and so do places like Kumon that teach math without all the fluff and with repetition.  For reading and writing, the Lucy Culkins model has been a similar spectacular fail.  It may work for some but for huge numbers it doesn’t.  So the problem is that the teachers are trained to use curriculum that is crappy and they don’t know what else to do.  It’s bad curriculum and a refusal by teachers and educators across the board to speak up and acknowledge that this stuff doesn’t work.  [/quote]

Our school uses Saxon and it's tons of rote practice. It's great for calculation. I worry a little about higher order math - prealgebra and beyond.[/quote]

I grew up doing Saxon through Geometry. It was great and I was decently prepared for the higher level math I did (through differential equations), though there was a transition period in Algebra 2.[/quote]

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