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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now that APS has CKLA — a literacy curriculum that is solid and works well, APS needs to replace their math curriculum with one that works.

“Primary Math (US Edition)” is almost identical to the “Primary Math” curriculum used by Singapore, which consistently has high math score in the PISA tests.  The only differences are (1) that the US Edition teaches US weights/measures rather than Metric-only and (2) the US Edition teaches US coin and printed money denominations rather than Singaporean ones.  If they would switch and use that, it would be great.[/quote]

Singapore Math has it's own way of doing things. We switched from public to private that uses Discover Math, a Singapore curriculum, and it took my kids (and I, as homework helper parent) a solid quarter to figure out how to do everything the expected way. One of our new-to-the-school teachers took a solid semester to catch up. There would have to be some intensive training for an entire district to catch up.

FWIW Discover uses both US weights/measures and metric and also uses US money. My kids both recently completed related units.[/quote]

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