Deseret News | Reader comments: Legislation takes aim at math scores

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Legislation takes aim at math scores

Kitenoa | 9:36 a.m. Nov. 15, 2007

I think educators have had enough time (years) to "fiddle" around with solving the math crisis amongst our AYP failing schools.

It is time to have inputs from others. How hard can Elementary math be? Educators and policy makers should welcome any new ideas that could increase our achievement scores and the benefits of math mastery amongst our Utah public schooled students.

Clare | 10:30 a.m. Nov. 15, 2007

What a waste of money. They have already spent who knows how much money rewriting a perfectly good core curriculum, now they want to pay people who don't even work in the classroom to find new ways to improve math scores. Give me a break.

Don | 12:44 p.m. Nov. 15, 2007

The first thing that needs to happen is to keep Howard Stephenson out of the process!

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Karen | 7:12 p.m. Nov. 15, 2007

Until the high mucky-mucks realize that our math curriculum should stop being a mile wide but an inch deep, our students will struggle with the tests that the state comes up with.

Make sure that students know a concept very well before moving on to the next. Core tests should cut down on the sheer number of concepts that teachers feel compelled to cover throughout the year, and allow them to focus on a reasonable number each year.

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