Friday, September 3, 2010

Queens Teacher: If Your School Has Everyday Math

Queens Teacher: If Your School Has Everyday Math

If Your School Has Everyday Math

Parent Pundit
January 25, 2005
If your school has Everyday Math

If your school uses Everyday Math, you should be extremely watchful. Everyday Math is problematic because it is a language-intensive-based program that

•stresses the use of calculators,

•wants the kids to come up with their own ways to solve the problems

•doesn't teach the traditional algorithms (the multiplication and division methods that they teach break down