I have almost all the Math Central math books. Pretty bad. These books
were recommended by the Radio Park Principal about two years ago when I
complained about the Investigations Math and asked her how my younger
kid in Radio Park could learn how to do the "Explain" part of the
investigations math. Therefore, they are pretty much the unofficial
textbooks for the Investigations Math (not 100% sure about this claim
although). I thought I rescued my kid from the sufferings by the
Investigations Math when I moved him to 7th grade math although he is a
fifth grader, but he fell into Connected Math. However, at least the
teacher at Park Forest Middle provides some supplemental math excises
beyond the Connected Math textbooks. I also remember when I asked the
middle school teacher during a teacher-parent conference about who
decides what textbook to use, I was told that the math department in the
middle school decided the textbooks and I was also told they were going
to switch from the connected math textbooks to traditional textbooks
starting next year (Again I am not sure if this is still true).
LongQing
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Long-Qing Chen
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Penn State University
102 Steidle Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-8101
lq...@psu.edu
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~chen/