Carrie Seidman: Florida's war on math textbooks just doesn't add up
Columnist Carrie Seidman says that the state is asking for problems by meddling in the process of choosing math textbooks for Florida classrooms.
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Columnist Carrie Seidman says that the state is asking for problems by meddling in the process of choosing math textbooks for Florida classrooms.
Textbooks for kindergarten through fifth-grade students were rejected at the highest rate, with 71 percent of materials turned away.
The books were listed because they included “prohibited topics” or were inconsistent with state standards, according to the Florida Department of Education.
Some school districts in Florida are in the middle of approving new math textbooks for fall and have to scramble to see whether they're not approved.
Florida provided no evidence of what's in the banned textbooks, but I imagine it's liberal mathematical filth like binomials and polynomials.