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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a quick question: are there actual math educators who teach aspiring engineers, mathematicians and scientist behind this plan? Is there buy in from The technical community? Or is it a bunch of English majors coming up with and advocating for this?[/quote]
Speaking of which, let's look back at the history of Everyday Math, the spiraling curriculum out of U Chicago.  Apparently the project began jointly between the mathematicians and the educators.  Disagreement ensued, the mathematicians quit, and the educators moved forward on their own.

Sounds like spiraling is what they want.  But, that is a method, a curriculum, not standards.[/quote]

FCPS already spirals in the younger grades. As far as I can tell, it's kind of a disaster. Learn a little bit of addition. OK, onto fractions. Now back to a little bit of addition, only more so. OK, onto geometry. They do that every year. The quick kids are bored. The kids with dyscalculia don't stay with a topic long enough to get either the whys or the methods (one kid I know like that has done much better with Saxon, which is still cumulative). Sounds like a total nightmare for high school level math, whatever grade you take it.[/quote]

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