Education Beat

A new way to teach math in California

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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.

Guests:

  • Rebecca Pariso, 7th grade math teacher, Hueneme Elementary School District; Member, Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee
  • John Fensterwald, Editor-at-large, EdSource

    • Read more from EdSource:

    • State Board of Education passes new California math framework
    • UC committee changes admission standard for data science, causing confusion over math framework
    • Next, maybe last, big test for California’s controversial math framework
    • A sample of public comments on math framework

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

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