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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just retired math teacher here. The move to no textbooks has been a real issue.

A good textbook is extremely helpful. It contains the bulk of what I will need to teach, along with exercises to practice the skills and concepts, and then can be supplemented. Without a good textbook, I have to create many if not most of everything that's in it in addition to the normal supplementary materials I find or create.  By the end of my teaching career, with textbooks becoming "unpopular," I spent all my time trying to find what would be in the textbook, and had very little time to plan and supplement.

This takes up the time I used to have available to plan how I will actually teach the material - how I will work with kids to help them learn. The lack of textbooks (combined with the implementation of the block schedule system) meant my kids were learning less and less math because I simply didn't have time to "do it all" - not complaining here, just stating a fact. It was very discouraging to me.[/quote]

OP here. I understand you 100%. I’ve taught a couple of med school courses and if they took the textbooks away and asked us to figure out how to communicate the information to our students it would be so stressful! I can’t imagine how they expect grade-school teachers to do it. Yes, the curriculum is easier, but classroom/behavior management is much more challenging so it balances out.[/quote]

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