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[quote=Anonymous]Everyday Math is just the worst. My kids' private school uses it and ugh! It is incredibly language heavy, both in the amount of reading and writing that is required, so if you are a slow reader or have any kind of language processing or handwriting issue, too bad! It can be really tough on ESL kids. There is also a heavy emphasis on having kids explain in writing how they solved a problem. Math has its own language. Requiring students to constantly translate their equations back into words is dumb.

It is called a "spiral curriculum" but it just seems disorganized to me. Literally 20 minutes in class might be spent on a concept before moving on to something else and then that same concept doesn't come up again for weeks. There is no time for mastery for slower learning kids so they spend a lot of time relearning each time a concept pop up, and there are limited opportunities for enrichment for advanced kids so they can be bored. Also there is little emphasis on learning math facts or standard algorithms. Certainly math should not be all memorization but having a solid foundation of those skills is necessary later for advanced math.

I have one advanced student who loves math but was bored by EM, and one struggling student who thinks he is bad at math because of EM. I don't know anything about Go Math but if at least the topics are organized conceptually and there is more time for mastery or enrichment that would be a huge improvement over EM. [/quote]

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