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From: [log in to unmask] (Barb Unger)
To: Middle Level Mathematics Network <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: FW: controversy of standards and programs
Date: Sat, Oct 30, 1999, 5:18 PM


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Dear Margaret,
        I don't think they get through the program.  I was at a Connected
Math Workshop last week and teachers discussed this problem.  They said that
they would have to pick and choose which books/units they could cover.
Barbara




At 02:16 PM 10/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>From: Margaret Carusona <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Middle Level Mathematics Network <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: controversy of standards and programs
>Date: Wed, Oct 27, 1999, 3:35 PM
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>Jim
>Thanks for the articles I am in the process of reviewing programs for the
>8th grade here at Leland anad Gray. I will asking for teachers who use the
>connected math and other standards based programs for opinions and the
>possibility of visiting the classroomst to see them in action. A question I
>have now is this: My classes are only 40 minutes long, and lessons from
>Connected Math are 60 minutes is there anyone out there using these
>programs that have classes undner 40 minutes? How do you get through the
>program?
>Margaret Carusona
>Leland & Gray UHS
>802-365-7329
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