> Math Wars : Pre-high school curriculum isn’t teaching about real math
People teaching middle and high school math do understand math. When I went to college, taking a math major, about half the students in my major classes were students majoring in education, with a specialization in math.
The problem here in Ridgewood is not that teachers couldn’t derive the quadratic equation (simple algebra steps) for a class – it is that the pre-high school curriculum isn’t teaching about real math, it is having students discover and think about concepts. That is all well and good if the BOE doubled the amount of math instruction time, but they didn”t.
