Posted on 11/23/2021 6:57:09 PM PST by algore
When Rebecca Pariso agreed to join a team of educators she said she expected some controversy.
“We were transforming math education, and change is hard and scary,” said Pariso, a math teacher at Hueneme Elementary School District. “Especially if you don’t understand why that change needs to occur. But I didn’t expect it to go this far.”
Every eight years, a group of educators comes together to update the state’s math curriculum framework.
This particular update has attracted extra attention, and controversy, because of perceived changes it makes to how “gifted” students progress — and because it pushes Algebra 1 back to 9th grade, de-emphasizes calculus, and applies social justice principles to math lessons.
San Francisco pioneered key aspects of the new approach, opting in 2014 to delay algebra instruction until 9th grade and to push advanced mathematics courses until at least after 10th grade as a means of promoting equity.
San Francisco Unified School District touted the effort as a success, asserting that algebra failure rates fell and the number of students taking advanced math rose as a result of the change.
The California Department of Education cited those results in drafting the statewide framework.
The intent of the state mathematics framework, its designers say, is to maintain rigor while also helping remedy California’s achievement gaps for Black, Latino and low-income students, which remain some of the largest in the nation.
Publications like the National Review have objected to the framework’s occasional citation of “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” A manual that aims to show math teachers how they can use their class to combat white supremacy. The manual asserts that current math pedagogy in the U.S. reinforces white supremacy in a variety of ways.
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I think you forgot an important variable. How long does it take for one looter to loot a store?
Lets say... 15 minutes?.
So 15 times 200?
I was never good at math....
Why did the California Teachers Association give you a copy of a sample recommended test? Are you a teacher?🤣
1+1 = whatever
Excellent!
Nothing is sacred that has been introduced to mankind by the greatest minds of Western Civilization.
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More late-empire societal degradation stuff.
The Left hates subjects like math, logic, and physics because these subjects are B.S. proof. These subjects don’t care about your age, race, or social background. These subjects only care about results and the Left hates that they can’t game it.
I have a BS in math as well. No degree.
Just BS.
The way California public schools teach math isn’t working. On national standardized tests, California ranks in the bottom quartile among all states and U.S. territories for 8th grade math scores.
Cali has been teaching "fuzzy math" for a generation, and it has been holding kids, especially poor kids back. The :"New Approach" to teaching math might be called..."Fuzzier Math".
Home schooling and private schools are the only solution for concerned parents (short of moving to a better state).
Weak men produce hard times....
That be it ‘Frog! LOL!!!!!
I can tell you one thing for sure; I WILL NEVER HIRE AN ENGINEER OR ARCHITECT LESS THAN 60 YEARS OLD!!!!
I remember watching a bunch of crabs in a crab trap. One crab climbed up the wall of the trap to the hole, where he could escape.
The other crabs reached up and grabbed onto the escaping crab and pulled him down.
Then another crab would climb up. Sometimes the escapee would hang on so tightly that when they pulled him down, one of his claws would rip off and would be left clinging to the wire cage near the exit.
That’s equity. That’s the California education plan.
It seems this proposed HS instruction framework is leaving out some math building blocks. As a math major, you can likely say this better than I or correct me if needed. Just as a sequence of math building blocks, it seems that this proposed framework is algebra followed directly by calculus. My HS and college paths were algebra, trigonometry, geometry and last calculus. I just can't see jumping directly from algebra to calculus. Rounding things out for my ChE field was an “engineering math” that was an advanced calculus focused on thermodynamics and kinetics - This one about blew me up.
I remember calculators locked up in glass cases at the store and my dad shopping for one. My parents explained they were something new and very expensive. Probably early '70s.
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