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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. Math education in MCPS is a hot mess. There are kids who do well despite MCPS. But they are generally from higher income families and have the luxury of math tutors, or parents helping them at home or they are just very bright and pick up math easily. But in general, students are not picking up basic math skills. And worse, they do not understand how to manipulate numbers at the most basic level possible. High school kids have no idea how to multiply or divide without a calculator. They can’t catch any mistakes because they blindly follow problem solving steps with no understanding of what they are doing. Central Office administrators responsible for math should be given a year to come up with a strong plan to completely overhaul math instruction and if they can’t get their act together, they should be fired [/quote]

There is no overhauling math in a year for a public school district with 160k students.  Especially without a huge influx of resources.  Especially since the first overhaul would have to start with Teachers, many of whom don’t understand math.  Just because you learned something doesn’t mean you have a firm enough grasp and mastery of the subject material to be great at teaching it to others.  It’s the same reason why parents are struggling to help their kid with the homework. Folks keep saying, “we didn’t learn it this way.”  True, but the reality is that if you understood the math it shouldn’t take you a long time to understand a different math strategy. Second, you would need more people available in schools and outside of school to provide intervention support for students and coaching/PD for staff. There are only 12 math coaches(8 at the ES level and 4 at the MS level).  There’s 134 ES. [/quote]

MCPS has overhauled math education TWICE since my kids started K. Curriculum 2.0 / Common Core, and then the switch to Eureka / Illustrated. (Eureka /Illustrated might even count as two more, since they switched from one to another for some grades.)[/quote]

Common Core is not a curriculm.  It is the federal guidelines as to what should happen in each grade so its consistent around the country.  [/quote]

Good start. Now try to keep thinking and see where it takes you. [/quote]

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