As I mentioned earlier, I want to look at the results of the education our students are receiving. Standardized tests provide one window, but when those tests are designed to match the curriculum recommendations of the NCTM, all you get is validation that the students are doing “better” on the junk they are being made to learn. Granted, the tests are (relatively) easy to give and score and interpret, but do they really point to how well we are preparing our students?
Everyday Math has been around since the 1990’s, producing a whole generation of high school graduates and folks who went on to college and/or the work force. EDM has only been in Greenwich schools since 2005, so we are only now (2010 and 2011 school years) seeing the first students going to middle school who have been using EDM for their entire elementary school careers.
How are our middle school students faring? What are middle school math teachers saying?
Does anyone out there have older experience with Everyday Math? If so, how well did your math education prepare you for college and/or the work force? Those are the results, more difficult to measure, which we need to look at.
Brian BTN
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