Renee, if you had the tenure, you could send back an email stating the fact
about the lack of problem solving and that you were wondering what was going to
be used to fill in that void.
For anyone not familiar with Saxon -they literally tell the student what to do.
I piloted in 4th grade and the directions would tell the student what to do
-no thinking there... One day (long division) the directions said use the LSD
method on this problem. I had to laugh! LSD!!!!!! Of course LSD was an
acronym for procedures used in the algorithm. Anyone remember Daddy, Mother,
Sister, Brother? Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring down.
Saxon is a very rote program.
Jan
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to
dance in the rain." BJ Gallagher
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:17:40 -0800
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
>
> I agree with Nancy. I am so sick and tired of the "supported by
> research" claim that I could scream. One of my principals sent out an
> email a few weeks ago with a link and an article that showed research
> about student achievement with Saxon math. ick. So I read it, and it
> referred basically to test scores AND also mentioned that Saxon math
> did not do well in problem-solving, which was better addressed with a
> different program that was studied. I think it was three or four math
> programs that were compared, and maybe it was Everyday Math that was
> better at problem-solving, but please don't quote me. Anyway, the
> point is that it truly is like a game of telephone. Perfect analogy,
> Nancy.
>
> Renee
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2010, at 3:22 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 3/10/2010 11:59:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > [email protected] writes:
> >
> > Could you give me a reference for that research?
> > So I'm behind on email, but don't see a response. I find often that
> > something that is supposedly "supported by lots of research," is
> > kind of like the
> > telephone game. Everyone has heard that there is, but no one quite can
> > pinpoint it. Just the fact that people say there is research makes
> > it so? I
> > agree with Maureen. I have seen a lot of evidence that often
> > students who read
> > slowly and methodically with prosidy, rereading and thinking
> > carefully,
> > are way better at comprehension than those who are trying to beat
> > the egg
> > timer.
> >
> > Nancy
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