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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article is very on point.  A university level math professor is not going to dumb down their curriculum for the incoming crop of story telling math students who draw circles for simple calculations. They are not there to hold students hands and its still a very sink or swim discipline. Schools have created tracks such as math for non-science majors for those who come in with MCPS type skills. Other schools do offer some remedial catch up courses but the trend is just to advise them away from the STEM fields that require actual math for science majors.

[b]2.0 will give you enough math for community college[/b] and tries to apply the same labels so parents think their kids are still being well prepared in Algebra, Geometry and Calculus. The schools can call courses whatever they want. They can spend an entire semester finger painting and call it Algebra, Some people will act like sheep and buy this. Others will object and find alternative math education.

What is so sad at a broader level is that math is not impossible and its quite interesting if students are given a good foundation to explore and practice the discipline which they are not allowed to do in 2.0. The very math oriented students from highly educated parents or kids coming out of private will still be prepared if they wish to pursue STEM careers, the rest will not. We really don't need anymore communication or education majors. [/quote]

2.0 will get you to calculus in 12th grade for on-grade-level math, and to calculus in 11th grade for above-grade-level math. What are the math requirements for community college?

Or are you saying that MCPS is calling it calculus, and AP is calling calculus, but yet it isn't really? [/quote]

I only know that the tech companies are full of foreign born workers. That is because the STEM majors and graduate schools are full of foreign born students. [/quote]

The evidence that math education under Curriculum 2.0 in MCPS is lousy is that the tech companies are full of foreign-born workers on H-1B visas?[/quote]

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