I believe that the common core standards should be the base, and not the height of our children's mathematical education. The current common core puts the students on a math track a year behind the current curriculum. This means no calculus until senior year, which translates to Orinda students being less desirable to colleges, which translates to lower property values.
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March 15, 2014
I am honestly stunned to see we have crossed 250 signatures. This really shows how much you all care about our kids and their future success. I am just the person who started the page but you are the ones who turned this into a real conversation.
Reached 250 supporters
March 12, 2014
March 11, 2014
I honestly never thought this would reach one hundred signatures. Watching this grow is entirely down to the effort you all put in behind the scenes. This milestone belongs to you.
Reached 100 supporters
March 9, 2014
93 Comments
Orinda should accomodate the needs of very advanced students as well as others; a strong Math progam has been very important to the success of Orinda's students when applying to college.
I signed up for an outrageous mortgage, just for the schools in Orinda. They better not cancel math honors, or I'm going to camp out in front of City Hall until they bring it back!
Many Orinda students seem ready to learn math at a more rapid pace than the common core state standards. I believe that these standards were intended as a floor to low performing states and districts, not as a ceiling to districts like Orinda that have high educational profile in their residential populations.
As a physicist professor at UC Berkeley, I am concerned that our children should receive a world-class math education that will allow them to excel in science, technology, engineering and math, the fields from which much of our prosperity is derived.
Children can become bored and disillusioned if they are not both supported and challenged at all levels. We should not provide false ceilings to knowledge but rather encouragement to learn more. There should be honors math just as there should be basic math.
Our voices have been heard. There has been a lot of thoughtful discussion on this topic and there will be an accelerated pathway, a double accelerated pathway, and an extended pathway for math after the adoption of the common core standards at OIS and Miramonte. For a presentation on the topic by John Nickerson, AUHSD superintendent, see the following link: http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/auhsd/Board.nsf/files/9HD8LE071464/$file/CCSS_Math_TransitionPathway_031914.pdf
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I believe that the common core standards should be the base, and not the height of our children's mathematical education. The current common core puts the students on a math track a year behind the current curriculum. This means no calculus until senior year, which translates to Orinda students being less desirable to colleges, which translates to lower property values.
Updates
March 15, 2014
I am honestly stunned to see we have crossed 250 signatures. This really shows how much you all care about our kids and their future success. I am just the person who started the page but you are the ones who turned this into a real conversation.
Reached 250 supporters
March 12, 2014
March 11, 2014
I honestly never thought this would reach one hundred signatures. Watching this grow is entirely down to the effort you all put in behind the scenes. This milestone belongs to you.
Reached 100 supporters
March 9, 2014
93 Comments
I feel like the common core has lowered the bar to an all-time low in a time where we (especially California) need to step it up and raise the bar for our schools and our kids. We would be doing a great disservice to our children if we take away the opportunities for advanced and honors math in our schools.
Orinda should accomodate the needs of very advanced students as well as others; a strong Math progam has been very important to the success of Orinda's students when applying to college.
I signed up for an outrageous mortgage, just for the schools in Orinda. They better not cancel math honors, or I'm going to camp out in front of City Hall until they bring it back!
Many Orinda students seem ready to learn math at a more rapid pace than the common core state standards. I believe that these standards were intended as a floor to low performing states and districts, not as a ceiling to districts like Orinda that have high educational profile in their residential populations.
As a physicist professor at UC Berkeley, I am concerned that our children should receive a world-class math education that will allow them to excel in science, technology, engineering and math, the fields from which much of our prosperity is derived.
Children can become bored and disillusioned if they are not both supported and challenged at all levels. We should not provide false ceilings to knowledge but rather encouragement to learn more. There should be honors math just as there should be basic math.
Our voices have been heard. There has been a lot of thoughtful discussion on this topic and there will be an accelerated pathway, a double accelerated pathway, and an extended pathway for math after the adoption of the common core standards at OIS and Miramonte. For a presentation on the topic by John Nickerson, AUHSD superintendent, see the following link: http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/auhsd/Board.nsf/files/9HD8LE071464/$file/CCSS_Math_TransitionPathway_031914.pdf
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I feel like the common core has lowered the bar to an all-time low in a time where we (especially California) need to step it up and raise the bar for our schools and our kids. We would be doing a great disservice to our children if we take away the opportunities for advanced and honors math in our schools.