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We the parents of ASM Lower School students are concerned about the quality of the lower School math curriculum and especially the change to Everyday Math this academic year.
We would like to see an independent audit of the quality of the Everyday Math curriculum compared to other math options as well as detailed performance metrics of our student math performance compared to other schools.
Our concerns are:
- We are concerned as research shows Everyday Math curriculum to be of lower caliber to other leading programs (GoMath, Singapore Math, for example), and school districts that began with Everyday Math have removed it from their schools. In Illinois and California, in particular.
- Students and parents have noticed a significant change in the level, caliber and rigor of the math exercises and homework of Everyday Math this year
- Everyday Math was implemented this year without parent communication until after the decision was taken and it appears teachers were not trained in advance and only received the new curriculum at the beginning of the school year.
-We are concerned with the overall rigor of the lower school math curriculum and this could have knock on effects to why the middle and high school programs also appear to be underperforming at ASM
- We want to better understand the math goals of lower school and how we can continue to increase the performance of students to be better at and even above grade level to other schools.
- We want to understand the review and conclusions of students, teachers, administrators and parents of this first year of curriculum implementation. A post mortem.
We propose to readdress the Lower School Math Curriculum at ASM and better align math to be competitive with other top international and US schools.
Signed,
Concerned parents at ASM
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This is a critical subject, we cannot wait and risk our kids education on this fundamental pillar. The smallest concern should be given top priority from the principal and academic board.
Weak academic program in whole school
A strong Math program choice in elementary is critical and like all programs requires annual and ongoing review, training and support to make sure it’s strong enough to bring kids to and beyond proficient, contains all the skill sets required by common core and a bit more because our expectation should sit higher than just the norm. With the Newly implemented “Everyday Math”, program at ASM I am concerned specifically about the depth, sequencing, consistency of practice (also in the homework part) and lack of enrich and reteach portion along with the Introduction of certain skill sets later than other programs, and lack of logic and helpfulness of the online portal. We used “Go Math” program in old school which did have these missing pieces and was supported online logically, was rigorous but built progressively with consistent practice spiral review (not jumping around) absolutely no calculator use in elementary, with supporting practice of reasonable length to gain proficiency and started with the basics of algebra in grade 3. Also if the extended challenge portions of the current program, which should be part of the unit tests are not given to the kids, they won’t be getting the practice they need to exceed rather than just meet proficiency. We are not grading kids to anything more than meets standard in lower school which means we are leaving a huge chunk of challenge and growth off the table and this also causes problems when transferring back to the US where kids are graded to exemplary not just meets standard and also into our middle school which does suddenly grade to exemplary but kids are not used to working to the higher expectation level. lack of a textbook makes it hard for parents to follow or see quickly what is being worked on daily by the kids or for kids to look back and review before unit tests. These are my specific observations for “Everyday math” versus other math programs which our previous NYC public school benchmarked in detail for one y
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
We the parents of ASM Lower School students are concerned about the quality of the lower School math curriculum and especially the change to Everyday Math this academic year.
We would like to see an independent audit of the quality of the Everyday Math curriculum compared to other math options as well as detailed performance metrics of our student math performance compared to other schools.
Our concerns are:
- We are concerned as research shows Everyday Math curriculum to be of lower caliber to other leading programs (GoMath, Singapore Math, for example), and school districts that began with Everyday Math have removed it from their schools. In Illinois and California, in particular.
- Students and parents have noticed a significant change in the level, caliber and rigor of the math exercises and homework of Everyday Math this year
- Everyday Math was implemented this year without parent communication until after the decision was taken and it appears teachers were not trained in advance and only received the new curriculum at the beginning of the school year.
-We are concerned with the overall rigor of the lower school math curriculum and this could have knock on effects to why the middle and high school programs also appear to be underperforming at ASM
- We want to better understand the math goals of lower school and how we can continue to increase the performance of students to be better at and even above grade level to other schools.
- We want to understand the review and conclusions of students, teachers, administrators and parents of this first year of curriculum implementation. A post mortem.
We propose to readdress the Lower School Math Curriculum at ASM and better align math to be competitive with other top international and US schools.
Signed,
Concerned parents at ASM
4 Comments
My son comes home so confused everyday. We end up spending hours just trying to figure out the homework because the way they teach it makes zero sense. We need a change back to real math.
This is a critical subject, we cannot wait and risk our kids education on this fundamental pillar. The smallest concern should be given top priority from the principal and academic board.
Weak academic program in whole school
A strong Math program choice in elementary is critical and like all programs requires annual and ongoing review, training and support to make sure it’s strong enough to bring kids to and beyond proficient, contains all the skill sets required by common core and a bit more because our expectation should sit higher than just the norm. With the Newly implemented “Everyday Math”, program at ASM I am concerned specifically about the depth, sequencing, consistency of practice (also in the homework part) and lack of enrich and reteach portion along with the Introduction of certain skill sets later than other programs, and lack of logic and helpfulness of the online portal. We used “Go Math” program in old school which did have these missing pieces and was supported online logically, was rigorous but built progressively with consistent practice spiral review (not jumping around) absolutely no calculator use in elementary, with supporting practice of reasonable length to gain proficiency and started with the basics of algebra in grade 3. Also if the extended challenge portions of the current program, which should be part of the unit tests are not given to the kids, they won’t be getting the practice they need to exceed rather than just meet proficiency. We are not grading kids to anything more than meets standard in lower school which means we are leaving a huge chunk of challenge and growth off the table and this also causes problems when transferring back to the US where kids are graded to exemplary not just meets standard and also into our middle school which does suddenly grade to exemplary but kids are not used to working to the higher expectation level. lack of a textbook makes it hard for parents to follow or see quickly what is being worked on daily by the kids or for kids to look back and review before unit tests. These are my specific observations for “Everyday math” versus other math programs which our previous NYC public school benchmarked in detail for one y
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My son comes home so confused everyday. We end up spending hours just trying to figure out the homework because the way they teach it makes zero sense. We need a change back to real math.