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25 Jul 2005 - 18:04
related posts:
Assess Your Child for Free Part 2
Assess Your Child for Free
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David Klein at the AEI
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Good grief. I just checked the site meter and we are in the midst of a huge Linda Seebach-lanche (thank you!) AND a Warren-lanche (thank you! thank you!), and I haven't even had time to straighten up the place. While I'm doing that, newcomers might want to read or bookmark the single best article on the math wars, Barry Garelick's An A-Maze-ing Approach to Math in Education Next. You can find Barry's ktm comments here & user pages here. Or, you might want to get started with the running feature we call Compare and Contrast. Carolyn & I hope some of you will enlist in the cause of better math ed for our kids. Leave comments & advice, edit group pages, or create your own page here (scroll down for instructions; more detailed instructions here). We need volunteers! Mathematicians, applied-math people, teachers, parents, students, occupational therapists, any & all interested parties: we need you! When you're trying to tap the WISDOM OF THE CROWD, the first thing you need is a crowd. Our model is WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE. The audience always knows more than the contestant.strictly nonpartisan! and we mean it!
The fun thing about the math wars is that they cross party lines. If you don't believe me, read this. (Hint: the politics-makes-strange-bedfellows moment occurs in paragraph 9).update
While we're on the subject of Warren-lanches, I'm planning on becoming an avid fan of According to Jim this fall. Especially now that Battlestar Galactica has become West Wing.update 2
Some of you may be aware that, once upon a time, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. Warren Bell actually is Nora Ephron, or he would be if he were 20 years older and female. Here's my favorite Warren Bell piece so far: Condumb?Trust, but verify!
For parents who aren't as obsessed with math ed as we are, the one thing to take away from the site is this set of Practice Problems for the California Mathematics Standards Grades 1-8 for the Los Angeles County Board of Education, which David Klein developed for the Los Angeles County Board of Education. For a variety of reasons, we think it's a bad idea to rely exclusively on state tests to tell you how your children are doing in math. True for private schools as well as public. The state of California has the best math standards in the country, according to the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation assessment of state math standards. David's problems will tell you whether your child meets CA standards--and, if not, which topics he or she needs to work on.related posts:
Assess Your Child for Free Part 2
Assess Your Child for Free
and
David Klein at the AEI
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