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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] About Everyday Math.
Each grade level comes with a textbook and workbook for every child. The workbooks are alright but do not cover everything the textbook offers.
The textbook should be used at all times.
The workbooks and the the other reproducibles which come in the grade level kit should be used as enrichments and review material.
If teachers use the series properly instead of using the workbook most of the time, it will cover everything and even a bit more at the specific grade level.[/quote]

Not quite - the textbook is called a "reference book" -- it is difficult for children to use, and not like a typical textbook that has explanations, examples and practice problems. It is more like a math dictionary.

And in terms of "if the teachers use the series properly..." that is not true. Everyday Math is built on the concept of spiraling (that students are introduced to ideas that they don't necessarily need to master right away, and they see those ideas come back around later).  This is difficult for many teachers in DCPS for several reasons. One, it relies on students having used the curriculum in their previous school years...many students are coming from schools that didn't use the curriculum. Second, it relies on students being relatively on grade level and being able to wrestle with the new concepts that are introduced that haven't been explicitly taught...again, as the test scores show, we know this is not the case for many students. Third, the type of lesson encouraged by IMPACT is one in which students show mastery of a specific objective by the end of the lesson. Some of the newer versions of EDM are more mastery focused, but overall, that is not how it works; the whole premise is that students need not completely master something right away, as it will come back later. So, sure, a teacher might use EDM "properly" and they also might score low on Teach 1, "lead well-organized, objective-driven lessons" because the two methods of teaching are at odds.

So regardless of which method you believe in - mastery-based or spiraling - it's ignorant to just frame this as another thing that wouldn't be a problem if teachers were just doing their jobs correctly.   [/quote]

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