California has a new math framework that stresses making math relevant to all students’ lives and teaching big ideas and concepts.

Critics say it will cause more students to fail, by de-emphasizing math operations, discouraging districts from giving advanced students algebra in eighth grade, and for its approach to data science in high school.

Listen to how one teacher thinks the framework will bring math alive for her students, and to our reporter on the controversies surrounding it.

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Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.