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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers have been brainwashed by NCTM. However, if you gently introduce the brighter ones to better materials, like Singapore Math, they often change their minds.[/quote]

ITA. NCTM is very strange group. I am not sure where their logic comes from. [/quote]

NCTM is a "very strange group"?  Are you a math teacher, professor of math education, or PhD-level mathematician?  Genuinely curious here.  Why do people on this forum think they (or NYC HOLD) know more about math education than the National Council or Teachers of Mathematics or the National Science Foundation?  [/quote]

Don't have the time or patience to go though this now. But riddle me this. The US is doing poorly in math compared to other developed nations, and we have this group, NCTM, which embraces wacky curricula like EDM and influences school boards. Other countries like Israel and Canada have tried our wacky curricula then kicked them out quickly when they realized they stink. Perhaps it is time for NCTM to go overseas and humbly ask what they are doing wrong.  [/quote]

Is doing poorly on what tests? Have you ever thought that the way other countries teach math rewards test-takers?  I am betting a kid who takes EM taught well will test well and have a good grounding in flexible mathematical thinking.  I think the problem in the US is not EM, it is a lot of math taught poorly so it does not instill good thinking OR rote memorization of algorithms-- the latter being the focus in many other countries.  [/quote]

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