Mathematics Program Reviews and Information

• California Mathematics Program Adoptions for 2001 - The textbooks judged as best aligned with the California Standards and Framework in a regular adoption

• California Math Adoptions for 2000 - The textbooks judged as best aligned with the new California standards in a supplemental adoption

• California State Adopted Middle School Math Programs reviewed

• Singapore Math and Science Books now Available - For those who ask about these books, here is where you can get them

• School District Alert for Mathematics Textbook Selection

• Texas School Districts Reject "Fuzzy Math" Textbooks -- Major Defeat for Statewide Systemic Initiative
  

• A Comparision of Three K-6 Mathematics Programs: Sadlier, Saxon, and SRA McGraw-Hill, by David Klein and Jennifer Marple

• Mathematics Program Reviews for Grades 2, 5, and 7
  Second Grade Programs
  
  Harcourt Brace Math Advantage
  McGraw-Hill School Division Math in My World
  Saxon Publishers Math 2: An Incremental Development
  Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley Math Grade 2
  SRA/McGraw Hill Math: Explorations and Applications
  Dale Seymour Publications Investigations in Number, Data, and Space
  Everyday Learning Everyday Mathematics
  Silver Burdett Ginn Mathematics: The Path to Math Success
  
  Fifth Grade Programs
  
  Scott Foresman Addison Wesley Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley Math
  Harcourt Brace Math Advantage
  McGraw-Hill Math in My World
  Saxon Publishers Math 65: An Incremental Development
  Silver Burdett Ginn Silver Burdett Ginn Mathematics
  SRA/McGraw-Hill SRA Math: Explorations and Applications
  Dale Seymour Publications Investigations in Number, Data, and Space
  Everyday Learning Corporation Everyday Mathematics
  
  Seventh Grade Programs
  
  Dale Seymour Publications Connected Mathematics Program
  Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Applications and Connections, Course 2
  Harcourt Brace Math Advantage Middle School II Preparation for Algebra
  McDougal Littell Passport to Mathematics Book 2
  McDougal Littell Math Thematics Book 2
  Prentice Hall Middle Grades Math: Tools for Success Course 2
  Saxon Publishers Math 87
  Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley Middle School Math Course 2
  Pre-Algebra Level Texts Potentially Used in Seventh Grade
  
  Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Pre-Algebra, an Integrated Transition to Algebra and Geometry
  McDougal Littell Passport to Algebra and Geometry
  Saxon Publishers Algebra 1/2
  

• Mathematically Correct Algebra 1 Reviews
  • Foundations of Algebra and Geometry
  • Algebra 1 (Foerster)
  • Focus on Algebra
  • UCSMP Algebra
  • Glencoe Algebra 1
  • HRW Algebra
  • McDougal Littell Algebra 1
  • Heath Algebra 1
  • Algebra: Structure and Method (new)
  • Prentice Hall Algebra
  • Cord Algebra 1
  • South-Western Algebra 1

• CPM
  • Content Review of CPM Mathematics
  • CPM: Impeding the learning process
  • Study Looks at Effectiveness of CPM vs Traditional Math
  • Both Programs Fail -- Is this CPM Success?
  • The Major Goal of CPM? -- It's Public Relations
  • A look at CPM "evidence" in their September newsletter
  • CPM "Geometry" Rejected by San Diego Teachers
  • Escondido Drops CPM, Re-Institutes Traditional Math
  • The Training Wheels A Parable for Modern Times
    Warning to CPM parents: This may produce strong emotional reactions.
  • Math method not working for some by Amita Sharma in the Riverside Press-Enterprise on Apr. 26, 1998, describes shut down of some CPM programs after high failure rates
  • A Letter to Kenilworth Parents
  • Schools chief sees problems, challenges by Guy Kovner in The Press Democrat

• Connected Mathematics Project (CMP)
  • Testimony of Susan Sarhady, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, February 2, 2000
  • Connected Math Disconnects Parents, by Timothy P. Williams
  • Petition targets connected math: Parents object to curriculum, by Jonathan M. Bell, Plano Star-Courier, June 17, 1999
  • CMP at Okemos Middle Schools
  • Review of Grade 7 program
  • Parents asking state agency to look into math program,by Sandy Louey, The Dallas Morning News Mar. 16, 1999, tells of complaints about Connected Math
  • Connected Mathematics in Plano Independent School District
  • One visit does not tell the complete 'fuzzy math' tale, Montgomery Journal, Sept 1, 1999
  • PISD says 'No' to alternative math program, Kelli Conlan, Plano Star Courier, Apr. 2, 1999
  • Fuzzy' math: PISD parents appeal to state, by Kelli Conlan, Plano Star Courier, Mar. 4, 1999
  • MCPS officials have 'fuzzy' answers for math curriculum, by Robert Rosenfeld, the Montgomery Journal, June 14, 1999

• An Integraded High School Math Program: McDougall Littell

• Parent's Evaluation of the Arise Math Program

• Core Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP) / Contemporary Math in Context
  • Letter Regarding Contemporary Math in Context from Steven Krantz (pdf file), chair of the Mathematics Department at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo
  • There Are Integrated Programs, and There Are Integrated Programs, by Richard Askey
  • A sample list of errors in Core Plus Materials from Lawrence F. Gray, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  • How a new math program rose to the top
  • High School Students And Lab Rats
  • Outcomes Analysis for Core Plus Students at Andover High School: One Year Later, by R. James Milgram, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
  • Math debate heats up, by Rusty Hoover, The Detroit News
  • Reform vs. Traditional Math Curricula: Preliminary report on a survey of the graduating classes of 1997 of Andover High School and Lahser High School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, concerning their high school math programs and how well these programs prepared them for college math, by Gregory F. Bachelis
  • New math doesn't compute with students, survey finds, by Tamara Audi, Detroit Free Press, March 19, 1999
  • Parents wary of new program for teaching math, By Nicole Bondi, The Detroit News

• Reform Calculus
  • What is Wrong With Harvard Calculus?
  • Calculus Reform--For the $Millions, by David Klein and Jerry Rosen in Notices of the AMS

• Algebra: Themes, Concepts, Tools
  • Review of Creative Publications' Algebra: Themes, Concepts, Tools
  • The Pythagorean Theorem by G. D. Chakerian and Kurt Kreith

• Addison Wesley
  • Brea Group Evaluates Addison-Wesley's Quest 2000
  • Addison-Wesley Math Programs in Arizona: X + Y = F
  • MTV Math Doesn't Add Up
  • 'Rain Forest' Algebra Course Teaches Everything but Algebra
  • More on Addison-Wesley Focus on Algebra, from Richard Askey
  • Focus on Algebra in the Congressional Record
  • Addison-Wesley's Focus on Algebra draws fire
  • Texas Adopts Textbook Rejected by Nation, by Chris Patterson, Nov. 1997

• Scott Foresman Addison Wesley Math, 4th Grade review by Kevin Killion

• A review of Geometry: tools for a changing world by David E. Joyce

• Palo Alto Parent Compares Three Reform Texts
  
  • Everyday Learning's Everyday Math (UCSMP)
  • Dale Seymour's Investigations (TERC)
  • Creative Publications' MathLand

• An Evaluation of Selected Mathematics Textbooks, by Wayne Bishop:
  • Sadlier-Oxford, Division of William Sadlier, Inc.
  • Everyday Mathematics, Everyday Learning Corporation (publishers of the materials of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, UCSMP)
  • Connecting Math Concepts (CMC), SRA Division of Macmillan/McGraw Hill
  • Saxon Publishers

• MathLand
  • SR board frowns on MathLand program, by Robert Digitale, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Oct. 15, 1998
    "Santa Rosa school board members voiced strong displeasure ... with the results of the MathLand math program ... Three board members ... said their own children have been poorly served by MathLand ..."
  • Math Gadfly Calls Math Faddists' Bluff, by Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle, Aug 7, 1998, comments on a MathLand school in LA
  • A Letter to the MathLand Folks
  • Atascadero picks Silver-Burdett over MathLand
  • Mathland Lunacy
  • Reviews from QED on Mathland
  • 'New, new math' has parents crying 'back to basics'
  • Can you believe this rationale?
  • Trouble in MathLand (updated 11/2/96)
  • Mathland in Davis
  • Petaluma parents battle MathLand
  • MathLand in San Francisco
  • MathLand in Stockton

• MathLand and Glencoe Interactive in the DoDDS
  • Four-Star Math Follies
  • The Stars and Stripes editorial (July 31, 1997) notes: Two years ago DoDDS implemented the new-new math programs, MathLand in elementary school, and Interactive Mathematics in Jr. high. The first year of implementation was a complete disaster ...
  • Parents' cry can subtract MathLand
  • Mathland and Glencoe Interactive in DoDDS
  • Mathematics Reform in Theory and Practice, and its Implications for DoD Students, by Denise McArthur

• Reality Therapy Founder Pushes for OBE in Minnesota

• The Core Knowledge Series

• UCSMP [also known as Everyday Mathematics and Chicago Math]
  • Evaluation of Everyday Mathematics
  • If math were a color . . . by Marcia Tsicouris
  • Concerned Parents of Reading sent a Letter to the Massachusetts Board of Education, Feb 13, 2000
  • Test Scores reported by Concerned Parents of Reading
  • A Florida Parent Speaks about UCSMP
  • Chicago math by Redyarrow
  • Suburban Chicago: Is Your Child Learning Math?
  • Officials: Calculators add up trouble, by David Rogers, Stoneham Sun, Nov 3, 1999
    Kennedy said the dependence [on calculators] may be in part due to the textbook they use. The school system has been using the Chicago textbook series, which requires a calculator for proper instruction. "On the first page they tell what type of calculator they should have," said Kennedy.
  • Teachers choose traditional text, by Jeanne Russell, San Antonio Express-News, Mar. 31, 1999

• IMP
  • An Overview of IMP Years 1 and 2, by Kim Mackey
  • It doesn't add up: New math displays some disturbing numbers, San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan 22, 1998
    "Q. Why is a new-math textbook like a guinea pig?"
    "A. Because a guinea pig doesn't come from Guinea and it isn't a pig."
  • Review of the Interactive Mathematics Program (requires Adobe Reader)
  • Comments on the California Math Wars
  • IMP: Manifesto on an Experimental Concept Gone Awry
  • IMP: A Student's View, with Comments
  • SAT Scores and IMP in California
  • IMP: A Teacher's Review for Parents
  • IMP in Cottage Grove
  • No more IMP, no more CPM in Escondido
  • IMP Woes in Oregon

• Project Follow Through
  • Honest follow-through needed on this project
  • The Association for Direct Instruction