• Of all Virginia Dept of Education recommended text materials, MI ranks dead last in adequately suporting the VA Standards Of Learning.
• MI isn't even on the VA Dept of Ed list of approved materials for Grade 5...but was perfect for PWCS kids!
• PWCS math scores for both elementary and middle school were great before MI - using traditional math - above VA averages across the board and rising!!!  There was no "math crisis" in PWCS...but there is now...
• Traditional proven simple and efficient arithmetic algorithms are discouraged, but children must "rote memorize" convoluted and excruciatingly complicated procedures to solve basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems.
• Long division is not taught at all....even by 5th grade.
• "Spiral learning" approach ensures that kids who move to other areas of the country are behind their peers who have been allowed to learn "real math" (beware military families)
• MI does not believe that children should master math facts and arithmetic operations
• MI promotes "discovery learning" by children vice teacher-led instruction
• No valid math study has ever been performed showing the effectiveness of Investigations Math(click here for more info)
• MI's recommended handbook for teachers called "Beyond Arithmetic" says traditional elementary math must be discarded because it ignores the fact that "today's students have an important tool available to them: the calculator." BA, Page 77
• MI simply has a record of failure across the country.  It has been banned by Utah, rejected by California, and had a dismal record of failure in PWCS's Superintendent's former district - Greece Central School District NY. 
• Remediation rates have soared in communities where MI has been adopted - those who can afford tutors and learning centers will not let their children fail...but what about those less fortunate?

With so many more quality programs available, why has PWCS squandered over $2.4 million tax dollars on this program...with much more $$ to follow...and why didn't you get a vote?