This testimony was made by an elementary school teacher to the Seattle School Board regarding Integrated Math, as implemented in Seattle Schools

This testimony was made by an elementary school teacher before the Seattle School Board, regarding the failure of the TERC Math Curriculum, also known as Investigations. It is a constructivist, “discovery” math curriculum.

May 5, 2001
Caitlin Kirby’s only in Grade 4, but already she has hit the math wall. Sometimes she lays her head down on her math homework and cries. “I´m stupid!” she tells her mother Tressa.

Tressa doesn’t understand Caitlin’s homework either. What she does know is that her daughter hasn´t grasped the fundamentals of arithmetic……..

Wall Street Journal article on “fuzzy math”. June 11, 1997

What’s happened to math? Education Reform article, December 1997

This video was produced by the parent group “Where’s the Math” and features MJ McDermott, Q-13 TV Weather Forecaster. January 15, 2007