Hmmm…. No Wonder Washington Spends Billions and Billions Without Accountability
They don’t teach math in school!!
Two Be or Not Two Be: Where’s the Math?
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17287/FIELD/education/index.htm
“Through her investigation of the Washington state legislature and school system, Hanek discovered that Washington’s public school math curricula no longer contains math. Two plus two no longer necessarily equals four. The importance of solving for a concrete answer has been replaced by the “necessity” of discovering the “meaning” behind a number…”
“To her dismay, Hanek discovered that the curriculum that was supposed to cultivate an eager, educated mind didn’t teach any concrete answers. Math books contained no numbers…”
“‘You don’t need to have the right answers. It’s more about how you solve the problem. They ask children to select a number, think about it, and write a story about it,’ said Hanek…”
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