Wednesday, August 22, 2001
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Wednesday, August 22, 2001 |
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School board considering new math teaching guides By DAVE
HAMRICK
Proposed new guides for teaching math to your children are available for public review at the Board of Education office, 210 Stonewall Ave., Fayetteville. "This is the best math curriculum guide that Fayette County has ever had," said Mary Elizabeth Mendenhall of Kedron Elemetnary School, who cochaired a team of educators that wrote the new guides over a three-week period. Also chairing the committee were Greg Mason of Fayette County High School and Angie Meredith of Burch Elementary. The National Council of Teachers of Math revised national math standards about 18 months ago, Mendenhall reminded the Board of Education during its monthly meeting Monday night. The local board revised Fayette's math programs accordingly last spring and adopted a new math textbook series. The new curriculum guides will now incorporate those changes for local teachers so that everyone is on the same page, said Mendenhall. Under the new program, students will encounter more complex math concepts in first through fifth grade. They'll be exposed to algebra and problem solving concepts. Math teachers coming into Fayette from other areas will find time lines and daily planners in the guides to get them functioning quickly in Fayette's system, said Mendenhall, adding that the guides are written so that the public can use them to understand how math is being taught. School board members will review the guides, covering kindergarten through 12th grade, with plans to act on them Sept. 17. Copies are in the board's meeting room if you want to take a look.
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