To teach children
math under the new standards, teachers need to think about math as a set of concepts students can discover, if they are given the right puzzles, Fox said.
Not exact matches
As predicted by state education officials, scores on the first English and
math tests given statewide to elementary school students
under tougher
new learning
standards are not very good.
Most
math and ELA teachers said that, despite concerns that the
standards would limit teacher autonomy, their classroom autonomy has remained the same or increased
under the
new standards.
The results showed that
under the
new numerical GCSE grades, the average
maths result of pupils eligible for FSM in England is 3.8, just
under the
standard pass mark of 4.
Under the proposals currently moving through the legislature, North Carolina would establish a
new «Academic
Standards Review Commission» and task the
new group with conducting a comprehensive review of state
standards in English and
math — a responsibility that is constitutionally assigned to the State Board of Education.
The
new Common Core
math and reading
standards adopted by 45 states have come
under a firestorm of criticism from tea - party activists and commentators such as Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin.
Similarly, does it make sense for traditional interests to attack standardized testing and reading and
math instruction (
under the guise of narrowing the curriculum) at a time when our schools and teachers are being asked to implement a
new set of
math and English
standards and standardized tests?
Under the
new standards, English teachers will still be spending the lion's share of their time on literature, but that means that history, science, and
math teachers need to have students reading appropriate texts in their classes, too.