Anonymous wrote:It’s sad that we have to celebrate that textbooks are coming back for some grades next year. How far have our schools fallen…

For real.

A couple of years ago a friend pulled her kids from FCPS to go private and she was THRILLED that all the kids get textbook. The most basic ish ever, but here we are.

I am an elementary teacher and would love if the kids had workbooks. I still want a hands on curriculum but it would be great to stop making copies and pulling things from online (teachers pay teachers.) The slides FCPS currently provide are a joke and full of typos. My students are in on the joke and love to laugh at the typos. The slides provide absolutely no rigor and the tests/SOL are so much harder. Teachers have to supplement all the time!

Anonymous wrote:Illustrative Math is pretty bad, but it's probably better than than the nothing that FCPS provides right now.

See this thread here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1147118.page

where one of the posters compares Illustrative Mathematics' approach for direct proportion with that of Dimensions, a Singapore variant.

https://curriculum.illustrativemathematics.org/MS/students/2/2/2/index.html

https://singapore-math.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Samples/sp_dmT7B.pdf

We switched to a Math In Focus (Singapore based) private school and I love it so much (once I wrapped my head around bar models). My kids have a textbook and a workbook and the concepts are really well taught just by the curriculum itself (as it points out in that link).

That said, Singapore Math really has it's own language/way of thinking and I cannot imagine bringing all the elementary schools in FCPS around quickly. They'd have to have more training days off - seriously.

Maybe there's a middle ground that's not Singapore but is still well done?

As a teacher, I can tell you that one reason they got rid of textbooks is that the funding changed so that schools had to use their own budget to buy textbooks, instead of having them bought by the district. So to save money, they went online.

Every patent needs to email the school board and say they want every child to have a math textbook to use at school and at home, not a grade-level set to be shared.

Illustrative Math is pretty bad, but it's probably better than than the nothing that FCPS provides right now.

See this thread here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1147118.page

where one of the posters compares Illustrative Mathematics' approach for direct proportion with that of Dimensions, a Singapore variant.

https://curriculum.illustrativemathematics.org/MS/students/2/2/2/index.html

https://singapore-math.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Samples/sp_dmT7B.pdf

If the math basal is as bad as the language arts basal Benchmark this year, then leave our teachers and kids alone!

Anonymous wrote:Bumping, any opinions on the math curriculum options?

They are all on display at willow oaks in the lobby, you can go flip through and see the offerings in person.

The elementary ones all come with online, textbooks, and workbook options. Some of the middle school and SOL high school courses as well. The AP/IB/elective math courses are just traditional textbooks scanned into an online system.

Bumping, any opinions on the math curriculum options?

We had to alter a URL from a South Carolina blurb to access Kiddom. https://go.kiddom.co/math-va

I think kiddom is illustrative mathematics (https://www.kiddom.co/digital-curriculum/kiddom-im)
, adopted for va but not positive. So I’m reading Reddit on IM. Mixed responses, ditto with the other one (def a lot of fluff pieces from the company though) both have all green ratings from edreports which is fine but kind of a base level expectation. They better have an option to have physical textbooks.

I wish we could use Singapore math…

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this thanks to Youngkin?

Probably

No... literally answered two posts above you

Anonymous wrote:Is this thanks to Youngkin?

Probably

Anonymous wrote:Kiddom math has not been reviewed by EdReports. Maybe some folks here can go look them over and report back here.

Amplify Desmos Math has excellent reviews from Ed Reports.

Caveat: I was only looking at Elementary math.

I tried reviewing the Kiddom math using the information FCPS provides on the site, but you can't actually get to the curriculum to see the resources. I emailed the FCPS email on the page asking how you're supposed to log in but they never responded.

Anonymous wrote:Is this thanks to Youngkin?

No. Math basal resources are reviewed every 7 years. It has been 7 years since the last review. There is a committee of teachers, parents, admin who evaluate the materials. There will be opportunities to voice comments.

Last time this occurred, mathspace was selected.

-hs math teacher

Is this thanks to Youngkin?