Wrt SG Maths - what is there to teach? Most kids I know that did it just followed the books and basically taught themselves by following the examples in the book.
It is an astonishingly good curriculum/text book, isn't it?
Yes - DD started it as a 'fun' thing to do and didn't even realize it was "Maths" for a while there. It really does the job very nicely.
Thank you mana, the political angle is really interesting.
So, the problem is not the cc standards, those are fine.
It's not that there isn't a good curriculum in existence that is aligned to those standards, there is one that is "astonishingly good".
It's not that there aren't any good textbooks available for the curriculum published in the US either, there are, and from how often I have read about home schoolers using those, they must have been around for some time.
It's not that math anxious elementary teachers can mess up the implementation, because kids can simply teach themselves following the examples in the book.
It's just that schools don't use them, possibly because of the influence or lobbying power of other textbook companies.
Who decides what curriculum/books to use? Local school boards? Do state departments of education get no say? I understand there is no federal authority. Who approves text books, is there an accreditation authority?
