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[quote=Anonymous]Someone asked specifically what we don't like about EDM. Here's my quick summary. (1) The rapidly spiraling curriculum means that many students are still slightly confused when it is time to "move on" to another topic. A good number don't get the topic when it is revisited again because, again, there isn't enough time. Meanwhile students who got it the first time around are bored and starting to misbehave. (2) Lack of differentiation. Some people claim that differentiation is inherent in EDM because so many of the games are open-ended, but the reality is that the students are grouped in heterogeneous groups and the kids who are ready for more advanced math have to play the game at the level of the others. There is also little support for students who need extra help or extra time to understand a concept.  And there is no differentiated homework at all. (3) Multiple methods to do multiplication and division, in particular, leave students without enough practice to achieve mastery. (4) Emphasis on non-traditional algorithms for basic arithmetic operations. This creates a very poor handoff to higher level math in, for example, high school when the students absolutely must know traditional multiplication and long division. (5) Lightweight homework. I'm not a fan of a lot of homework, but the EDM homework worksheets always took my son less time to do than it took to find a pencil. There's more, but fortunately the nightmare of EDM is 3 years behind us now so the details have started to fade from my memory.[/quote]

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