What proposed changes do you feel will strengthen math instruction? |
I like the idea of re-arranging some of the math objectives and re-asigning some of the objectives to alternate grade levels;however, I have noticed that many objectives have just been shifted from one place to another; noticable by bullets added to all ready existing objectives. This moving amounts in little change in the material covered per grade level. I believe in order to really help our struggling math students that the amount of material per grade level needs to be reduced giving more time to spend on any one objective. I did notice that two of the sixth grade objectives had been moved to fifth grade. (New 5.3 and 5.8) I agree that some of the content that is covered in sixth grade needs to be covered more in fifth. I taught sixth and seventh grade math for years and just moved to fifth grade and I can see a huge jump in material covered in sixth grade compared to fifth. I would like to see additional changes that would put more objectives in specific grade levels and not just moved around objectives or bullets inside grade levels. The ideal amount of objectives per grade level would be about 18 and not more. Limit the amount of objectives to cover per one year and give time for students to fully understand material.
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What suggestions do you have that are not reflected in the revisions? |
Limit the amount of objectives to 18 per grade level to allow more time to completly understand the material. For instance move the old 5.11 or the new 5.9 b to the science curriculum and eliminate it from the math. It could easily be placed into the science investigation section 5.1 objective.
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