petmoosie | Mar. 12th, 2009

Someone else's rant. It is the math program in my school district. I think that I should be able to help with some of the issues that tend to occur. For one thing, keeping a record of her work for the year should help in reviewing materials and keeping her fresh on some of the things that she learned a year ago.

Everyday Math is a spiraling curriculum, so the same ideas are tackled at the same time of year in all grade levels. So there is a geometry unit, a measuring unit, an adding unit and some others. Advanced students don't like it because they never get deeply into a unit and it feels like it is all review. Struggling students don't like it because they never spend long enough on a unit to master it.

Emily is on the geometry (shape) section. So I had to pull out a picture (from the air) of a certain interestingly-shaped building :-). We drove by it on the way back from dinner with