Our kids are in a public school that is generally considered to be great (it better be, given the school taxes we are paying). Yet the math teaching is appalling compared to the teaching of English. In English there is a huge amount of repetition of basic exercises at every level. English is woven into other subject areas as well. Neither of these is true for math. There are ridiculous jumps from one level to the next. For instance, kids are introduced to subtraction and within short order ar...

Our kids are in a public school that is generally considered to be great (it better be, given the school taxes we are paying). Yet the math teaching is appalling compared to the teaching of English. In English there is a huge amount of repetition of basic exercises at every level. English is woven into other subject areas as well. Neither of these is true for math. There are ridiculous jumps from one level to the next. For instance, kids are introduced to subtraction and within short order ar...