Posted on 03/10/2011 8:52:26 AM PST by wyowolf
Thousands of Georgia's teens are continuing to fail final exams as they struggle with the accelerated concepts of integrated math. The latest evidence is the results to the End-of-Course Tests given in December, when 17,520 students flunked the Math I and Math II exams.
The state's school districts are likely to examine those scores as they decide whether to keep teaching integrated math to their high school students or return to more traditional methods.
Of the 20,679 students who took the Math I final in December, 42.6 percent failed it. That's a 19.6 percent increase from the spring, when 114,005 students took the exam and 35.6 percent did not meet expectations. Small gains were made in Math II in December, but they included the scores of students repeating the course after failing it the first time.
we need to increase the teacher union pension and bargaining rights, that is the obvious solution to the students failing.....yeah...that’s it...that’s the ticket...
I know I shouldn’t, but now I’m thinking of Alabama governor George Wallace.
Can someone tell me what “integrated math” means?
Is it based on some new-age philosophy or something?
Future Congresscritters in charge of our National Debt!
Had to purchase a program called “My math lab” offered for the local technical/community college for my 9th grader because the teachers have NO IDEA HOW TO TEACH ALGEBRA!
The community college has a former principle of an elementary school who fought the ‘integrated math’ program because it doesn’t work. I took the course to get a better math grade on the Compass and I was amazed at just how screwed up (and simple math could be!) our math system is!
Yet one more reason I don’t mind writing that check to send my kid to a parochial school here in Atlanta, I couldn’t imagine him attending even the ‘good’ public schools after seeing the people who run the schools here. Our county’s last superintendent has been indicted for felony racketeering charges yet is still receiving a check from the county, and was allowed to approve a $217,000 salary increase (on top of her regular salary) for his replacement; a highly unqualified minority female of course. It’s a perfect example of what happens when you give control to liberals...complete and utter FAIL.
I sure don’t know. I thought integration is something you learn in first year calculus.
"If Bus 1 leaves the inner city at 4:30am taking gangstas to the suburban schools and Bus 2 leaves...."
We sent our son to a private Catholic school for just this reason in Douglas Co. However I am not exactly impressed with the results thus far. We are trying to get him into a charter school thats supposed to be pretty good. To be honest i dont see much academic improvement over the public schools, but at least he is not around the bad “elements” so much...
Same here.
I don’t know what it is—but I’m quite sure it’s a bad idea.
Integrals.
Putting on my union hat, I’d say the Georgia “schools” need more:
1) money
2) sex education
3) diversity education
4) training on the muslim cult (small m most intended)
5) kid unions
and as new democrat voters, they most certainly don’t need no stinkin’ math.
Why should they learn what our idiot president couldn’t even begin to comprehend?
and this isn’t even sarcasm.
Is it based on some new-age philosophy or something?"
Cats and dogs living together...Seriously, you may be on to something. Read the link below:
http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=1712
Oops, blew the link:
http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=1712
I’ll bet our teachers here in California are more lazy than your teachers,students here think math is a drug.
Not really, it comes from Japan and other Asian and now European schools. Basically it is just 'integrated' components of math, i.e. Algebra, Geometry, Trig, and even pre-Calculus together during the same school year. For example remember when we were in middle school and took Algebra? Well now they have to learn certain aspects of all math components and try to make them work together. It's not a bad idea per se, but it is a major fail in the U.S. for two reasons:
1. Students aren't prepped enough in math in grades 4-6 to be able to comprehend integrated math
2. The vast majority of teachers are nowhere near educated enough in the various fields of other math to properly teach it. This is the main reason for it's failure.
As with most failures in our school system, it can be traced to liberal policies that it won't work here; teachers who actually are qualified aren't given proper status thanks once again to the unions interference in seniority structure. In Japan, where it works beautifully, only the teachers who are actually qualified can teach integration, and they have to prove themselves able to do so, something unheard of in this country.
It looks like algebra, geometry and statistics all mixed together. I’d bet that students use the graphing calculator extensively. Who know how much they actually understand and then remember.
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