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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You see what the kids are doing and you recognize that it has a heavy dose of reform math. Those are the code words they use. Since who can really oppose conceptual understanding, right? What kind of evidence do you need? You meant a confession from MCPS that they are using reform math? Proof beyond reasonable doubt? Are you a lawyer? I am not. But I am in a math heavy field and I know math, and recently really woke up to the reality of math education in this country. [/quote]

Actually, I see what the kids are doing (at least my kids), and I DON'T recognize that it has a heavy dose of reform math.

I am not a lawyer, I am also in a math-heavy field, I also know math, and I think that the reality of math education, at least in my experience of it in MCPS, is that it's much better than it was when I was in elementary school.

So:  what kind of evidence do I need? How about evidence that the teachers are discouraged from teaching algorithms, or that students are expected to come up with computation solutions on their own or in small groups, or that students get open-ended problems with no clear answers -- i.e., the kind of stuff that reform math actually does. I have not seen any evidence of this. Perhaps you have.

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