You all know my stand on this
If forgot, read The Calculus Trap.
It takes knowledge on the parents site to relize that getting A in class and having no problems with assigned exercises does not mean that your child is actually learning anything. Last year, when DS was in Algebra 2 I spoke at lenght with other parents that had kids in that class. None saw the problem ! They all looked at me like I was from Mars or something - after all my son is a math genuis at this school, so why am I complaining???
What I am finding ironic and really sad in this article, is that it is the teacher from a well known science/math magnet school that is raising an alarm. The teacher who gets the brightest in the district. How are other kids doing, the ones that did not get to M.Blair but also took Alg 2??? A huge disservise to not so bright math students too, ha?
It took me a while but I did learn. And DD is not taking Algebra this school year as a 6th grader. She will do pre-Alg,even though the rest of her class from last year will be in Algebra. Funny thing is , she was the best math student in that class
