Good, Bad News on the Math Front

Karen Rouse:

When results are broken down by race, just 10 percent of black and Latino sophomores in Colorado schools are proficient in math; 90 percent are not.

Those scores are "scary," said Jenna Fleur Lin, a math teacher who tutors high school students in the Cherry Creek School District and runs a free week-long math and science camp at an inner-city Denver church.

"What it means is you have a huge population that's not going to function properly," Lin said.

Moloney said one problem is that, unlike elementary and middle school students, high schoolers have the freedom to choose many of their own courses.

"Are minority youngsters being channelled into challenging programs or are you being (steered) to diminished programs?" he said.

Lin said she believes many students don't have a solid foundation in math in elementary school.

They are just learning to do calculations but they don't understand how to

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 3, 2006 12:39 PM
Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas