Re: Math Investigations

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On 9/27/09, Only in Loudoun! wrote: This IS NOT in LCPS! We have
not adopted it county-wide. It is in select schools and
hopefully will stay that way!
> On 9/26/09, Somewhere over the rainbow wrote:
>> The county adopted Math Investigations and has been phasing
>> it into the different grades over the last few years. My
>> school did not make AYP because of our math scores. The
>> principal charted our math SOL scores for the last couple
>> of years and the scores have been steadily going down.
>> Nearby schools with similar demographics have had their
>> scores go up each year. Why? Our principal was chastised
>> when a teacher deviated from MI to help her students
>> understand a math concept so our principal insisted on us
>> being true to MI. Teachers at the other schools stepped
>> outside of MI to help their students understand the
>> concepts.
 

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