Why don't any of the school districts use singapore math?

Spiraling is an issue then. That makes sense to me. Are there any textbooks which don't use the spiraling approach but still teach standard math skills as well as reasoning and math understanding?

I am also curious what DCUM parents think of the new textbook proposal especially for the K-6 students which is being decided this Thursday by the school board. I'm not terribly happy about the Pearson/Scott Foresman Envision Math Series they are recommending. The series is particularly poor for the K-2 years from my observation during the open viewing session these past months and per reviews on line. In addition to being dumbed down (by almost a whole year compared to other programs for K-1) it is also another spiraling program. Hopefully FCPS will have other work to use to teach my child in the early years (besides putting my child on the computer to have lessons at their level which I'm not in favor of) and will structure their lessons so not to make them so confusing for kids to learn. I see nothing in the documents that they are switching the AAP math textbooks either.

School board link to math textbook adoption:
http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=8J8RTM6E5850

Comments on Envision for the web from teachers and parents currently using the program:

Interesting to hear how many teachers have considered enVision, Houghton-Mifflin, or Everyday Math. Our school is in the process of changing and we are considering envision or Houghton-Mifflin. I teach in MI and many of the districts in my county use Everyday Math which we don't like. We currently use Houghton-Mifflin 2002 for grades 3-6 and like it. Although we are leaning toward enVision, it seems to be "dumbed down" for grades K-2 compared to what we're using. Our K-2 teachers are concerned there isn't enough "meat" nor enough individual practice for students to work toward mastery. I'd appreciate any opinions/feedback on this.

My sons school in fort worth texas started using this program this year and it is the worst. It seems to be a blend of everyday amth and mcp....both are quite poor curriculums. He is in the 2nd grade. The are doing double digit addends again. and it is novemebr now, and haven't begun to cover multiplication. Also the program doesn't actually teach the children the basicsa of math it gives them charts and teaches menatal math shortcuts of using groupings of ten to reach an answer with out actually teaching how to work the problem. so all the kids learn is a short cust which will not work for all problems.
In short. It Sucks. I recently bought abeka math I am teaching him myself now. at least for math.

I was extremely disappointed when our district adopted Envision. I teach 1st grade and find the lessons lack a lot of depth. We have been using Saxon math, which I really enjoyed. All programs have holes that need to be filled, but I liked the way Saxon taught UP to the students. Envision seems to teach DOWN. There is no meat, just lots of pretty images (my class thinks the butterfy is gross). I am technologically advanced and love to use it when I can, but this program relies too heavily on images and not enough on manipulation and understanding of a concept

There seems to be no real sequence in EM. They jump around so much and things don't seem to build on 1 another. it seems like they touch a topic, learn some tricks and move on.

I see some of the disadvantages of stuff like Everyday Math, but am not sold on teaching the math I grew up with in the 80's either. I like the idea of having more reasoning, better mental math methods, some concrete and real world math applications, and more word problems than the math I grew up with. I'm curious what exactly people don't like about the curriculum. It seems small changes could be made more easily than completely switching the entire curriculum. Or are there so many issues, this is what needs to be done?

Our teacher at HW told us they were going to teach EM at the back to school night. I think they must because it is entirely silly and confusing to me.

So, did anyone say anything about Hunter's Woods? I can't tell what type of math they are teaching. I think it may be Everyday Math, but I don't know.

Louise Archer uses Everyday Math & I really dislike it - A LOT.