“She is so right. I saw the same thing when I went back to college and that was well before she did.”
What’s so powerful about her is that she says it with a smile and stays right on message - meaning that EVERYTHING she says about the books are from the books. I can’t do that...I’ll launch into the motives of the people shoving this stuff into our schools. She just tells people what it is and lets them make their own judgments.
I know some people in public schools and have seen the *Everyday Math* curriculum and it is all as bad as she says.
It’s a terrible curriculum, very confusing to get around. The teacher’s manual, which is what I looked at, is even worse.
It’s no wonder the kids aren’t learning anything, because if the teachers use that as a guide to teach, they couldn’t do it coherently in the first place.
I was hoping that that nice meteorologist lady would recommend Saxon Math for remedial math for kids. We used it for homeschooling and it’s so well laid out and the explanations are so concise and easy to understand, that you can teach the subject even if you don’t have mastery of math yourself. What happens is that you learn as you go, as I did.
All that math that I was supposed to have learned in public school myself in the late 60’s and early 70’s that I didn’t get then, FINALLY made sense after going through Saxon Math (three times each up through Algebra II).
I did manage to pass calc in college myself with the help of a wonderful math prof who worked very diligently with me, but it would have been a lot easier if I understood math BEFORE going into calc, instead of after.....