http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/10/01/math-textbooks-incompetence-corruption/ The Official Blog of MathMojo.com - helping public school, homeschooling, unschooling students, parents, teachers and adults learn math with easy and effective methods. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:20:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/10/01/math-textbooks-incompetence-corruption/#comment-28433 Dawn Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:57:07 +0000 http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/10/01/the-more-things-change/#comment-28433 I haven't noticed what's going on with math textbooks as we've got several resources we use in our homeschooling (Math Mammoth, (Singapore) Primary Mathematics, TimeZ Attack game, etc.) and none are school texts but I did pick up several school science texts this summer. They were gr. 1, grade 3, grade 7 or 8 and a college text. What a waste! Each book covered the same subjects in the same sloppy way. It seemed that the end goal was to produce children who were not only bored silly with science but had a very poor understanding of it. I'm generally convinced that if it seems a certain way it's probably meant to be a certain way. I haven’t noticed what’s going on with math textbooks as we’ve got several resources we use in our homeschooling (Math Mammoth, (Singapore) Primary Mathematics, TimeZ Attack game, etc.) and none are school texts but I did pick up several school science texts this summer. They were gr. 1, grade 3, grade 7 or 8 and a college text. What a waste! Each book covered the same subjects in the same sloppy way. It seemed that the end goal was to produce children who were not only bored silly with science but had a very poor understanding of it. I’m generally convinced that if it seems a certain way it’s probably meant to be a certain way.

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