Because I teach in a private school, this all slipped right past me! I've just discovered that my own state had at one time adopted a "fuzzy math" curriculum, Everyday Mathematics.
I am so proud of the Texas state school board. They have responded to the complaints of many people in a number of school districts, and they have dropped that curriculum. Thank you, Terri Leo and others on the board for listening to parents, teachers, and district board members.
Go here to read the story. Be sure to scroll down and read the letters from parents at the bottom. Thank you Elizabeth Carson for letting us all know who Jesse Arnett is and why he writes with such strong support of Everyday Math.
Here is the story at Edwatch. Scroll through this page because there is so much linked here.
MATH WARS ON THE RISE:
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• South Carolina: Everyday Math Bottoms out at Beaufort
http://thevoiceforschoolchoice.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/education-bottoms-out-in-beaufort-with-new-math/
• Illinois: http://www.illinoisloop.org/mathprograms.html#chicagomath
• Connecticut: http://concernedctparent.blogspot.com/2008/10/moving-it-up-front.html
• New Jersey - Recall Everyday Math Long Valley http://longvalleymath.com/
New Jersey Long Valley NJ recall Everyday Math http://longvalleymath.com/category/national-math/
New Jersey Ridgewood: http://vormath.info:80/WordPress1/?cat=6
New Jersey, Bridgewater-Raritan Parents Math Forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/B-
• Missouri Columbia district back to traditional Math
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/09/24/district-decides-go-back-traditional-math/
• Washington State Math Mess- a case against constructivist Math
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008253262_opin12nutting.html
Washington State: Math Education and Inconvenient Truth (Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI
Washington State A University View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvSFunUjx0&feature=related
Seattle school turns to Singapore Math http://www.seattleschools.org/area/math/singapore/SingaporeEDMalignment.pdf
• Utah turning to the Far East http://www.highbeam.com:80/doc/1P2-16709447.html
• Virginia: Stafford County - Everyday Math is dumbing down our children 2008 http://www.schoc.org/id56.html
Virginia: Prince William County, Arlington County, Fairfax, Loudoun, Howard
Parents Rise against Everyday Math:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/18/AR2008021802244.html?referrer=emailarticle
Virginia Prince William County: Parents take Action (2008) http://www.pwcteachmathright.com/
• Texas: http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_93930.asp
Texas Rejects Everyday Math in part http://www.nysun.com/new-york/texas-challenges-city-on-math-curriculum/66711/
Educational Research Analysts rate Everyday Math worst.
• California Rejects Everyday Math in part. http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/
Cognitive Child Abuse in Our Math Classrooms By C. Bradley Thompson http://teachmath.net/Abuse.html
• New York http://www.nychold.com/let-nydn-0610yy.html
New York http://www.nychold.com:80/let-action-0712.html and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI&feature=related
New York - Fuzzy Math is not cuddly
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11282007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/fuzzy_math_isnt_cuddly_685276.htm?page=0
• Massachusetts: http://www.massachusetts.edu/stem/stem_math_woes.html
• Math Wars around the country: http://mathematicallycorrect.com/citylist.htm
• Humor: Peaceful movement to disarm Fuzzy Math
http://www.weaponsofmathdestruction.com/thumbnails.cfm
• 600 schools in the US have shifted to Singapore Math http://www.illinoisloop.org/mathprograms.html#singapore