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Re: algebra
- To: http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg
- Subject: Re: algebra
- From: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 07:26:55 -0700
- Cc: http://www.gmail.com/~alex. (Alexander ), http://www.umass.edu/~a (Alexander )
- Keywords: my-Oakland-voicemail-number
> From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
>
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> http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/san-francisco-middle-schools-no-longer-teaching-algebra-1
This article seems empty.
http://www.breitbart.com/ca/2015/07/24/common-core-sf-delays-algebra-1-to-high-school/
seems to have substance.
> this is about the teaching of algebra, and some school districts wanted
> everyone to take it, even if they were not ready. so lots of kids failed
> it.
My junior high offered pre-algebra in 7th grade and algebra in 8th grade.
We moved to Sudbury when I was in 8th grade so I never took pre-algebra,
but my dad insisted that I take algebra. I did OK, unlike my math classes
in my first year in high school.