So the time has come where the nation unites under one educational standard: corestandards
This is an exciting time to be contemplating creating math education software and texts. I just read that one of the reasons textbooks are so thick and incoherent is their attempt to meet all the different standards. Could tiny books be around the corner?
But more interesting to me is that the math standards are a 93 page document while the Language Arts/History/Science is a 66 page document. Looking at them, they are formatted quite differently.
Math is the way I would do it. One vertical column of material, progressing linearly through the grades, with overviews.
The other is turned on its side with extra wide tables and multiple grades per page, side-by-side.
The math one, I feel like I can handle and read. The other one, that makes my dizzy. Do I read down, across, diagonal maybe? I understand that it makes sense in some ways, but man, I hate that kind of presentation.
Home schooling just got easier, I think. It seems that this has been adopted by 38 states in a matter of three months.
Post a Comment