Sunday, June 15, 2014

Texas & Everyday Math

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS "The elementary school teachers of San Antonio voted overwhelmingly to drop EM because it didn't work for them nearly as well as what it had replaced." (Web posting by Dr. Wayne Bishop of California State University on Math Forum, 3-19-2001; http://www.math forum.org/epig�/5.0.2.1.2.2001031913145.08d2e620@exchange.calstatela. ed) "San Antonio ISD dropped EM after several years and in spite of rising test scores. Why were the scores rising? Because most schools and individual teachers were learning to leave EM on the shelf and do their own thing with whatever materials they could scrounge while EM took the credit." (Web posting by Dr. Wayne Bishop on Math Forum, 11-8-2001;
http://www.mathforum.org/epi�/5.1.0.14.20011108171602.033c9ec0@exchan ge.calstatela.ed)
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