Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Singaore Math on the move in Utah

Legislation moving in Utah... from the Salt Lake Tribune:

http://www.sltrib.com/education/ci_11778246

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The state boards of education members are themselves obstacles to a high school education. The truth might be slow in telling, but Singapore will eventually win over public opinion.

The bill was scaled back Monday from an original cost of $1.75 million to a new cost of $500,000 at the request of the state school board, meaning it could affect 5,000 students instead of 10,000. Another change would mean grants to colleges and other groups to train mathematicians to be teachers would be delayed until July 1, 2010.

Math reform should be derided as dimwitted, futile exercises in pseudoscience - it might have been used to teach Trigger how to count - but it has no business in the classroom.

dan dempsey said...

It was said:
"Another change would mean grants to colleges and other groups to train mathematicians to be teachers would be delayed until July 1, 2010."

We do have a major problem as our teaching force is low on math content knowledge. Reform math has put a giant bullet hole in the knowledge reservoir.