Mathematics education is controversial. Students from the United States do now fare well, on average, when compared to students on international assessments. Some argue that when you control for poverty and for the fact that all nations do not attempt to educate all children, students do just as well as students from the highest performing countries including Singapore, Korea, Finland and other mathematically gifted nations. The Common Core curriculum was developed in response to these international comparisons. However, these reforms have become politicized. The implementation has not been without its problems. Check out this article from the New York Times. Do you agree or disagree with the premise that teachers from the United States do not deliver instruction in alignment with the reform movement?
I am looking forward to a fantastic year. I hope you will find this website a useful resource for supplementing the things that we learn in class. I also hope that you will use the discussion forum to post things that you find on the web that you think might help your classmates. I am looking for help with keeping this site current and if you would like to volunteer, please leave a comment and I will add you as an administrator of the site.
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Sandi YoderI have been a teacher for 27 years, 14 of which have been in the Campbell High School IB program. Archives
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