Well, it's one of Pearson Education's products to deal with The Coming Storm-- er, Common Core.

So this is evidently what they envision being adopted in lieu of pre-algebra? Algebra? Geometry? Kind of some of all of that?

It's a hot mess, from what I can tell.

Basically, the approach isn't "integrated" the way that any sensible person would imagine that approach to work... more like "blended" with a heavy dose of our old friend "spiraling pedagogy" thrown into the mix.

In other words, the intent seems to be to frighten er-- enlighten... the students with snippets of a LOT of math that they aren't yet prepared to actually tackle themselves.

But no worry-- we'll come back to all of that later, so I guess... just.. survive the skirmish and move on?



Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.