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WES adopted EnVisionMATH (Singapore Math program) starting this year. I hope the NYT article below (that was posted in another thread) contributes to the discussion.

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September 30, 2010 
Making Math Lessons as Easy as 1, Pause, 2, Pause ... 
By WINNIE HU 
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. — By the time they get to kindergarten, children in this well-to-do suburb already know their numbers, so their teachers worried that a new math program was too easy when it covered just 1 and 2 — for a whole week.

“Talk about the number 1 for 45 minutes?” said Chris Covello, who teaches 16 students ages 5 and 6. “I was like, I don’t know. But then I found you really could. Before, we had a lot of ground to cover, and now it’s more open-ended and gets kids thinking.”

[ Edited to comply with copyright laws. ]
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Envision is not Singapore Math

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2009/03/a_skirmish_in_the_math_wars_de.html[/quote]

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