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Everyday Math an Everyday Drag?
Writing in Forbes, Emily Willingham offers a scathing critique of the Everyday Math program developed by educators at the University of Chicago and used in a not insignificant fraction—Willingham estimates 1/10—of elementary school classrooms.
Willingham boils down her criticism of the curriculum to three ways in which it fails:
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"It buys into this notion that all learning must be fun and engaging."
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It "completely overlooks the need for the human mind to systematize and to learn to systematize."
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It's "'real world' approach" falls flat with concrete thinkers.
Read the essay.
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