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Sacramento-area districts deal with problem math books
- 04-01-2010
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By Diana Lambert/Sacramento Bee
Five times three equals five. Second-graders at 79 Sacramento-area schools can find that equation in their new math books. Other students using the math series are being asked to count the flies in the playground – only there's no picture of a playground on the page. These are just a few of the errors in the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill math series that two area school districts – Sacramento City Unified and Folsom Cordova – started using this year in kindergarten through sixth-grade classrooms. Among the others: lesson plans that don't connect to homework assignments; tests that don't match textbook lessons; student texts that don't parallel teachers' books; and mistakes in the answer keys. (more...)
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