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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach in DCPS and have been teaching Eureka math for 8 years I think, all the same grade level. I really loved the old Eureka and understood it wasn’t a script. The new Eureka Squared is so dumbed down. We just did I think six days of calculating volume. On day SIX they said oh here’s the formula: LxWxH. The kids were all asking if it was a joke. It is probably better for struggling students but my classes where half the kids are above grade level they all complain that it’s boring. Even the word problems are super simple and not a challenge at all.

The slides they provide are awful and some have errors on them. They will say in the script to write a problem on the board. Why not just put it on the slides for us? The slide they give is a full screen “turn and talk” image so I don’t actually have space to write anything.

The online components are meh, and I don’t assign any of the digital stuff because it’s not really interactive, just reading on a screen. The online platform for tests is also super glitchy. One test I couldn’t score because it wouldn’t load. Their customer service emailed me every week “we are working on it!” Then ghosted me.

There are some notable improvements like color in the books and some “classwork” pages instead of doing everything on whiteboards. Fluency is better connected to the current or near future problems. The Application Problem is replaced by one that leads into the work of the day. There are some occasional videos that help model a concept but they are basic and the questions for kids are always “what do you notice, what do you wonder?”

Overall I dislike it and wish we had more freedom to adapt to our students needs but I am required to follow the script. [/quote]

That’s interesting. In MCPS to date we have used the old Eureka, not Eureka Squared, for ES. Now I hope they go with IM (which has worked well for my kid in MS).[/quote]

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