Thank you everyone for your comments. So, what happened last night? When I arrived at the meeting, I found out that that the time limit on the length of the...
Or--the letter he had to write in the same class from the point of ... Good lord I¹ll forward this one to Ed, too. This doesn¹t sound AT ALL like Joy Hakim. ...
Trace the development of mathematical concepts over time and across cultures (cf. world languages and social studies standards). (from Ridgewood) ---- math is...
Our teachers are pretty much doing what they want to do. The students have no advocacy ‹ meaning, parents can¹t advocate for their children. Well we can ‹...
Was the person claiming that this was an either/or situation? That is, that slavery WASN'T a Factor Yes. That was the claim. I remember people telling me that...
For your soapbox, I would go with the principal that you use the MOST powerful ³resume lines² instead of being comprehensive. (Isn¹t that a resume rule??...
We have a candidate forum tonight, too. I¹m trying to remember how Ed is going to frame his question .... Something along the lines of, ³If the district...
Stick with brevity for your question but make a handout (1 page) of the issue -- and have a couple of links on it for parents to learn more (links to reviews,...
This is amazing: from the introduction to the chapter: ...La Salle High School (a fictional name but not a fictional school) was chosen for study because the...
Hi -- Here are some lines from Hakim¹s books: Caption under Declaration of Independence: Fifty-six men signed their names to the Declaration of Independence....
You know --- our candidate forum was taped last night, and will be broadcast ... There was one TRAILBLAZERS question after another. It would be quite clear ...
I have found this thread about Joy Hakim very interesting. I own all the Joy Hakim books, and have used them from time to time to teach my own kids. I find...
< < I would zero in on the fact that 200 mathematicians, engineers, etc., including 2 Nobel prizewinners, have publicly repudiated these texts. Then let that...
And I managed to fail in a setting in which half the parents there were incensed about TRAILBLAZERS and two of the candidates were on record saying it stinks. ...
... about ... books ... I checked, and you are 100% right! The ASSIGNMENTS were not part of the book (which sounds outstanding)--they appear to be the...
... I checked, and you are 100% right! The ASSIGNMENTS were not part of the book (which sounds outstanding)--they appear to be the teacher's attempt to...
In lessen 7.9 of Everyday Math (5th grade) the kids make a "slide rule" to show how to add and subtract negative numbers. You move the top part back and forth...
We 5th grade parents heard from the 6th grade teachers today as our kids get ready to move ahead a grade next year. In math, 6th grade is all about PROBLEM...
... years. I don't think in 20 years those children that are now adults and can't make change, balance a checkbook, work alone and trust their own skills, or...
Yesterday as part of the iniation into next year's 6th grade I listened to the science teacher describe the science curriculum, where they dabble in insects,...
I¹m so glad to hear those assignments didn¹t come from Hakim. They are just SO foreign to her prose and to the care she obviously puts into her work. By now...
< < The excesses of reform math are going to be laughed at in twenty years. ... This very thought ‹ only for EVERYTHING, not just for math ‹ washed over me...
... <nowthatshockey@...> wrote: The excesses of reform math are going to be laughed at in twenty years. ... I didn't mean we'd be laughing. I meant educators...
I just found this little morsel written by a mom: On an educational level, I also have a big beef to pick with what public schools call "integrated math."...
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