Behind the Headline: Judge rejects Seattle’s high school math program



By Education Next 02/05/2010

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Judge rejects Seattle’s high school math program
02/04/10 | Seattle Post Intelligencer

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An A-Maze-ing Approach To Math
Spring 2005 | Education Next

A judge has ruled that the Seattle school district’s adoption of a “discovery math” program was arbitrary and capricious, noting that the state board of education had declared the curriculum “mathematically unsound.” In the Spring 2005 issue of Ed Next, Barry Garelick looked at the politics and the math behind discovery math.

HT: Joanne Jacobs




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