Georgia math teacher Trevor Thomas writes about the controversial integrated math curriculum that has been a subject of frequent Get Schooled blogs over the last five years. (If you search on "math," you will find many pros and cons on the program introduced by former school chief Kathy Cox.)
Thomas has taught high school mathematics for 20 years (public and private). He holds two graduate degrees (one from UGA) in math ed and has been writing opinion columns for about 10 years. This is his first piece for the Get Schooled blog
By Trevor Thomas
One of my favorite moments in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series occurs in book two, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Peter and Susan, the older Pevensie children, are confused and troubled by Lucy (the youngest sibling, though very honest)'s insistence of a seemingly impossible tale of entering another world, and the contrary account of malicious and mean-spirited Edmund.
Peter and Susan take their concerns to the eccentric Professor Kirk, in whose house
