Investigations math fan? You've come to the right place to get straightened out. Start with the videos below if you want to very quickly see the major damage this program and others like it are doing to children and the future of our country.
Utah Singapore Math Meeting with Dr. Yeap Ban Har
American Curriculum Set vs. Singapore Math Set
Articles in the press about Singapore Math
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700234367,00.html
http://www.sltrib.com/education/ci_9571460
 2008 Co-Ed Summer Soccer Schedule
March 2008-Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel
11/28/07 - Math is more important than reading for future achievement. Constructivism intentionally destroying English language skills
11/16/07 - Utah state math initiative fails after teaching teachers pedagogy instead of content
11/14/07 - Score one for Utah, Education
sub-committee passes math task force bill. Now goes to full legislature.
DESERET NEWS BLOWS THE LID ON UTAH'S REAL SCORES--COMPARED DEMOGRAPHICALLY
WE'RE DEAD LAST
C.S. Lewis's excellent "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" document (a satire on American socialist education)
October 2007 Education Subcommittee Meeting
(State Superintendent reiterates ban on Investigations as primary curriculum)
The state of the State of Utah's math
Alpine District deceived the public as you can read about here:
ASD's Saxon Math Deception
Part 2 of the Deception
Milgram replies to the State School Board
The State School Board replies to the Legislature on Milgram's Letter
Letters to Utah State School Board on New Weak Standards
What Can You Do About Fuzzy Math in Your Area - 13 Ideas
VIDEOS:
***Awesome Investigations
Math Video Exposes Fallacies of Program
***Second Video Helps Expose Additional Problems
Sign the Math Petition to Remove Investigations Math and Get Higher Standards in Utah (all Utah residents can sign)
Investigations Math in Alpine School District
Poor Utah math standards allow these math programs to be used by Alpine School District as well as other districts:
Dr. Wilfred Schmid at Harvard said of the TERC program (Investigations Math K-5):
"A TERC teacher doesn't explain, and a TERC teacher doesn't teach! I don't want to be misunderstood: group learning and discovery learning are parts of the tool chest of every accomplished teacher, but it is folly to turn these techniques into an ideology. If we mathematicians had to re-discover mathematics on our own, we would not get very far! And indeed, TERC does not get very far. By the end of fifth grade, TERC students have fallen roughly two years behind where they should be."
A Review of Connected Math (6-9th grade) by Lappan, Fey, Fitzgerald, Friel and Phillips
Overall Evaluation: F, "This rating is perhaps deceivingly high, as 7 of the 11 topics rate no higher than 1.2. The rating is as high as it is based largely on two high subscores, proportions and graphing. It is impossible to recommend a book with as little content as this and an inefficient, if philosophically attractive, instructional method."
Dr. David Klein of Cal State Northridge:
"In shutting the door to algebra, Connected Math also closes doors to careers in engineering and science for its graduates."
Wayne Bishop, Ph D, Cal State LA (IMP is Interactive Math used 10-12th grade)
"Although such absolutes are hard to substantiate objectively, it is possible that this is the worst high school mathematics curriculum that has ever been written...districtwide approval of IMP would be nothing short of immoral. The opportunity of upward mobility through education lost for thousands of children."
Alpine School District has implemented these three programs districtwide.
If you are undecided about the quality of the math education in the Alpine School District (which I was in March 2005 and then started doing research on it), check out the information I have posted on my website. If you haven't seen the evidence before, go to the new intro page and read the documentation indicting this program.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION to raise Utah's math standards.
NCTM: "Whoever wrote the NCTM math standards must be a physical education teacher." (Click here to find out who said this)
Teachers: If you have only received information from the district concerning how great NCTM standards are and how there's no research to support "traditional" math or denigrate "discovery learning" methods, click here to see the largest independent education study ever performed. I know many of you disagree with the district's use of NCTM math and I encourage you to continue bucking the constructivist theory of teaching. It is a failure and has produced thousands of mathematical midgets in our system while labeling them "A" students.
The Quashed Flyer: If you have heard about the recent flyer being disallowed by the district to be passed out to teachers, click here to open a copy and hand deliver it to your children's teachers.
Engineer Writes to East Valley School District Board Members (this page reflects a lot of the best research I've found but puts it all in one place for easy access)
http://home.earthlink.net/~realmathnow/data/MathCurriculum.htm
Parents: You can dual enroll your child
***Alpine Relents on Math*** (read the Norton Plan)
On May 22, 2006, Alpine School District officials announced that next year they would offer choice in math to each community school (click for pdf) . The choices will be decided next year, but they have stated one of the choices would probably be Investigations math. They have no current plans to change out Connected or Interactive math (equally bad for older children). For another idea, see the Norton Plan. For current news and a list of all updates, see the menu below. ***NEW TO FALL 2006---ASD is indoctrinating teachers to stand by NCTM Standards...it remains to be seen if they will give them the other side of the story which my flyer helps with above.
Here's my "Math Menu" which is also at the bottom of each of the math pages.
Investigations Math Menu
** Most important pages to read (all have value but if you will only read
a few pages make it these)
* Very important
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