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It is not pages of math problems. it's all story problems. and the way it's introduced instructional-wise i thought to the class, the teacher goes over a couple of vocabulary words and so it's more of a wordy math rather than formula math. and into she'll go over the definitions of vocabulary words the students copy this down with a picture on the bottom, maybe two similar triangles to look at scale, and then they're sent to do their work. >> so then a curriculum problem as much as anything, and the way it was adopted. we have a shot of one of the payments from your daughter -- pages from your...

Were developed and she came home with a d. what happened that was so dramatically different. >> my school district implemented cpm, and they saw common core and reviewed several different curriculums and voted on that as being the best one to meet common core requirements. cpm requires a group learning atmosphere, direct ininstruction is not encouraged at all. it's discouraged in favor of group learning, and actually like the students to kind of struggle for a couple weeks until they get to the point where they either figure it out themselves or do eventually gel it. like old style, i love mat...

In math, new standards came out and she got a d. so what happened that was so different? >> so my school district implemented bpm. they volted on common core curriculums. it requires a group learning atmosphere. direct instruction is not encouraged at all. it's discouraged. and they like the students to kind of struggle for a couple weeks until they get the formula and figure it out themselves or they eventually get it. i love math, i have a background in engineering. old schools it would have examples, formulas, equations, and pages of math problems to work through to practice your skills. an...

Is not pages of math problems, it is all story problems. the way it's introduced, the teacher gets up and goes over a couple problems. it's more word math than formula math. she will go over the definition of a vo cab lar word, they will copy it down, and they will look at it, and then they do their problems. >> so it's more of a curriculum problem. i think we have a shot of one of the pages from your daughter's book. some of it is -- well, it's very difficult to understand. i don't want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like we all agree there should be standards and they should be hi...

It is not pages of math problems. it's all story problems. and the way it's introduced instructional-wise i thought to the class, the teacher goes over a couple of vocabulary words and so it's more of a wordy math rather than formula math. and into she'll go over the definitions of vocabulary words the students copy this down with a picture on the bottom, maybe two similar triangles to look at scale, and then they're sent to do their work. >> so then a curriculum problem as much as anything, and the way it was adopted. we have a shot of one of the payments from your daughter -- pages from your...