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unusual facts about reform mathematics



Addison-Wesley Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra

Senator Robert Byrd, Democrat from West Virginia, joined critics of reform mathematics on the floor of the senate by dubbing Addison-Wesley Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra the "Texas rainforest algebra book,".

Lake Washington School District

They adopted reform mathematics texts such as TERC and Connected Mathematics, although these and similar text have been blamed for a dramatic decline in math skills of students entering the University of Washington, and some parents protested the complete omission of elementary arithmetic, particularly from TERC.

Skip counting

Skip counting is a mathematics technique taught as a kind of multiplication in reform mathematics textbooks such as TERC.

Traditional mathematics

Most of these organizations are critical of reform mathematics and have given poor reviews to textbooks such as TERC, Mathland and Core-Plus Mathematics Project


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