Summer Break & Summer Work
by pwceducationreform
Summer Break & Summer Work
June 19, 2012 — pwceducationreformSummer Break
Just a reminder to our readers that we tend to take a break from posting over the summer. We will return with test score data when scores are released to the public in late July or early August. Until then, conversations will continue on our facebook page, but articles will not be posted here regularly.
Summer Work
We remind parents of children in grades 3 – 8 that the school system will be implementing a new math program in the Fall. The school division doesn’t appear to have done any sort of analysis of the gaps between the knowledge expectations of the new program and the Math Investigations based program we’ve been using, nor made any effort to provide instruction to fill those gaps. As a result, next year will be a challenge for some students as Math Connects, the new program, has different knowledge and work expectations than Math Investigations, the old program.
The biggest challenge will be overcoming the different work expectations. Our old Math Investigations based program requires students to solve a handful of problems to demonstrate understanding of a concept; Math Connects, our new
