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Students Complain about Math Curriculum. But Is It Working?

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Article by Miranda Vargas-Meza for the October 2022 issue of the Signature, the Hancock School Newspaper

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students complain about math curriculum what is it working written by Miranda about as Mr Red by Ray Salazar for the past four years and pack his transition from the traditional Common Core Curriculum to the controversial in created math program int many students have expressed their dislike for the program stating that they haven't learned anything I am T is a problem-solving base program made to drive group engagement it is a curriculum that place is focus on the teachers and more on the students themselves the open-ended structure of the curriculum is part of the reason some schools have decided to shut down the program a Regional High School in Massachusetts being one of in an article titled many relieved TNT gone college preparatory math curriculum in his place Gifford a student at arhs stated students complained about the emphasis on learning and groups rather than having the teachers explain everything my parents protested that I am he didn't prepare The Chew for standardized test in another graphic article titled imp survey reveals pluses and minuses future plans the most commonly stated problem among the student Community is the feeling that I am key has little to do with Calculus the core that's directly after i m p since there was quite a junior who is taking calculus this year that's cool replaced i m p with college preparatory mathematics CMP if I am proven to be wrong for other schools is it right for Hank even before i m p was implemented at Hancock the math department including math teacher Arianna bentel visited Jones and Northside several times to observe all levels of i m p classrooms and a variety of Hancock also began a continued what does ship with a professor at Northwestern who mentors are teachers and guides them in different aspects of the program according to bed until this is given our math department the opportunity to see what might be best for Hancock and learn how to properly sequence the curriculum Clementine dimp curriculum teachers are giving key questions that will support student and help lead them to the right thing without telling them the answers that Denzel however it is still up to the teacher to decide how they present the information because Auntie is so students focused every teacher presents the information in their own unique way every class is different there for the same process you won't work for every student it is then up to the teacher to decide where it will allow the students to learn best tell highlights at the i m p curriculum here at Hancock is Young we've been spending the past four years it just implementing the curriculum for seniors other first-class of kids who were in i m p of those for years one year and it was online we're small and Home Group. Android remote learning more difficult until remark the kids are going to feel discouraged they're going to feel like I learned nothing this was not valuable I would have learned better if but there will always be a spinel said as a remote student in go to school until stated being a remote student is hard it's not motivating it's very discouraging and it's very easy to be passive and you're learning it's very easy to just sit there and be like okay talk I'm just going to sit here however and tell said I am he requires people to be active participants in the morning so when it is easier to be a passive participant it's going to be a lot harder to say I need to be motivated until asked students to remember that it's not just the curriculum it was trying to something new maybe it's not a way we've learned before maybe it's not a way we're comfortable with yet and on top of that now we were uncomfortable because we were online now we're teachers are trying to adapt to something that is Hands-On and manipulative timeline important to know however that even though I am he was difficult online for many the testing shows Improvement last year's juniors are performed both the district and state mean math score on the SAT Men's Health pointed out that she has now how to program 60 so the delivery had become a lot smoother than telling all our teachers at Hancock promises best practice for students and it's best intentions and it's competitive with other college prep selective-enrollment schools and see if yes that's what it comes down to preparing you guys for college are we preparing you in the CPS system is it best practice all around and I think that is our main goal when looking at this Fernando Gonzalez contributed to this article this was written in Hancock College Prep journalism class School paper the signature the audio recording and editing software was made possible through a grant from the Illinois press foundation and the Illinois Farm Bureau

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