UPDATE 5/13/08 They have decided on McDougal Littel for high school Algebra, Geometry and Algebra 2. Yay!!! Fortunately, the high school teachers seemed to favor the program and so they made the decision pretty easily. It will be official once they take it to the school board at the beginning of June. Thanks so much to everyone for getting involved. I'm really thrilled with this decision!
High school math choices
1. McDougal Littel overview
· Approved by Indiana (considered a state with high math standards)
· More traditional math than reform math
· Teacher directed learning
· Optional discovery based learning materials the teacher can use to supplement the program
· Students and parents can look at the textbook and figure out the rules for how to do that kind of problem
· Good website support for students and parents
· Key Curriculum Press (The Discovering Series) http://www.keypress.com/
2. Key Curriculum Press overview
· Very reform math oriented
· Discovery based learning with group problems for students to “discover” the math without being shown the best way by the teacher
· Heavy on “investigations,” application and word problems, weak on computational skills and fluency
· Difficult for parent or student to "look up" how to do a certain kind of problem and follow the steps because the book isn't set up that way
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