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At Monday's meeting they also discussed how to improve communication with parents, Davis said. One critique of Everyday Math claimed parents might have a difficult time helping their children with Everyday Math's less traditional methods.So....Palo Alto parents.
"Do we need to do a better job of enlightenment, do we need to do a better job of parent education?" Davis said. "Absolutely."
Palo Alto teachers pick controversial Everyday Math curriculum
Here's a thought experiment.
You are an assistant superintendent. Your parent population hails from Stanford University and Silicon Valley, and you are employed by the school district that was Ground Zero of the Math Wars.
You have two choices.
a) adopt a world-class math curriculum
b) adopt Everyday Math and do a better job of parent education
ignoring parents in Palo Alto
welcome to the Grand Canyona teacher-mom on Everyday Math
the plot thickens
enlightenment
Steven H on Everyday Math in Palo Alto
where parents get their information
"reality" in Palo Alto
Parents frustrated over math textsTeacher committee recommends new math textEd Week on the ed wars
interview with my cousin re: her experience with EM
2 comments:
Our elementary schools here in Anchorage are implementing Everyday Math next year.
Luckily my 2 5th graders will be on 6th grade math next year, which doesn't use EM.
My 3rd grader though will suffer, since she struggles with reading and EM has an abundance of word problems. She is pretty good in math, but now...
p.s. It appears Palo Alto was stuck between a rock and a hard place. They had a choice between EM and enVisionMATH... which is doesn't sound much better.
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