A quiet, sub-rosa fear is brewing among supporters of the Common Core State Standards Initiative: that the standards will die the slow death of poor implementation in K-12 classrooms.
By any accounting, the challenge of getting the nation's 3.2 million K-12 public school teachers ready to teach to the standards is enormous.
I petitioned my counselor to let me skip Algebra II and Pre-Calc to go straight into AP Calculus.
A common problem throughout math education is the "When am I ever going to use this?" attitude. I already knew where I was going to use the math I was learning.
Petrillo says he was disheartened by the difficulty students had understanding calculus and tried to find a way to teach the material better, without dumbing it down.
From outside the US, but this article (and its link to its opposing article) does lay out one aspect of the mathematics debate that has been raging in the US for decades