Friday, March 7, 2014

The new math

William's school has introduced a new math curriculum. This has been met with much parental angst because although it teaches the same concepts, the methods are completely different from how most people were taught*.
Take this math work, for example. William sat down and worked out these two math problems without any help. He was totally confident and proud. I totally do not recognize or understand his work here though.....

*I've done some research and I actually think many of the components of this curriculum are amazing, especially if they work as they are supposed to. So, I am currently undecided about my opinion.

1 comment:

  1. Looks to me like he's making groups of ten. Very confusing though with all the lines and bubbles. Our homeschool math curriculum is different from how we were taught but it makes sense and explains the why behind everything. But I have to go through new math stuff with them the first time to understand how to help them. Right now I started relearning algebra with our oldest ' s new curriculum.

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