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HOW OUR 5th GRADERS COMPARE TO OTHER NASSAU COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS:
Meets or exceeds standards: 43rd out of 53
Exceeds standards:
47th out of 53 Click here to see how we compared
Dr. Wilfried Schmid, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and Panelist on the National Mathematics Advisory
Panel seems to know why:
"A TERC teacher doesn't
explain, and a TERC teacher doesn't teach! I don't want to be misunderstood: group learning and discovery learning are parts
of the tool chest of every accomplished teacher, but it is folly to turn these techniques into an ideology. If we mathematicians
had to re-discover mathematics on our own, we would not get very far! And indeed, TERC does not get very far.
By the end of fifth grade, TERC students have fallen roughly two years behind where they should be." Dr. Wilfried
Schmid -"Remarks on Investigations in Number, Data and Space (TERC)." NYC HOLD Math Forum: Are Our Schools' Math Programs Adequate? Experimental Mathematics Programs and Their Consequences. New York
University Law School, NYC, June 6, 2001.
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