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The most idiotic statement I have heard on this forum is that "they have been teaching math wrong"  Really?  [b]Somehow we have managed to graduate engineers and students who do very well in college.[/b]

I think what is missing from the MCPS mindset is that our children don't get these years back in Geometry/Math instruction while they are the test subjects for their new curriculum.  Look at the 2.28 BILLION dollar operating budget, where 1.47 billion are for salaries...  don't you think they have enough staff to write a curriculum.

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Yes, that's true. We have also managed to graduate lots and lots and lots of people who do not understand math and cannot do math.

Read here, for example: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html?_r=0

And we get into regular panics about not enough US-born people going into engineering and math.

Also, MCPS did write a new curriculum. And then they rolled it out. If they test the new curriculum, people complain: MY CHILD IS BEING USED AS A GUINEA PIG! If they don't test the new curriculum, people complain: MCPS IS FORCING AN UNTESTED CURRICULUM ON MY CHILD! How do you think that MCPS should solve this problem, besides never ever changing the curriculum?[/quote]

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