Opinions about Reform Math

Here are some editorials and essays whose messages seem to us important. More will be added.

• A guest editorial from the Seattle Times by Catherine Taylor, a professor in the UW College of Education: Making math instruction add up

• A guest editorial from the Seattle Post Intelligencer by Virginia Warfield, a Senior Lecturer in the University of Washington mathematics department: Many math 'truths' are in fact myths

• An article by Thomas O'Brien in the Kappan (journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society) on the contrast between what Reform Math is working on and what he calls Parrot Math

• A guest editorial by Steve Kinholt in the Seattle PI on the steady gains in WASL scores.

• An opinion piece from the Notices of the American Mathematical Society by Solomon Garfunkel, Because Math Matters

• A professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Missouri-Columbia argues very clearly that Keeping pupils engaged in mathematics is what counts

• It Just Adds Up: Students need much more than WASL Math -- BCC's President speaks up in the Redmond Reporter

• Don't Dump the WASL, from the Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties Daily World