NYC
HOLD Honest Open Logical Debate
On
Math Reform
To: Harold O. Levy, Chancellor
Dr Judith Rizzo, Deputy Chancellor for
Instruction
Burton Sacks, Chief Executive for
Community School District Affairs
Dr Irving Hamer,
Member, Board of Education, Manhattan Representative
Trudy Irwin, Director of Education,
Office of the Manhattan Borough President
From:
NYC HOLD
Re:
June 6th Open Meeting with Mathematicians on the city’s “New Math
Programs”
We
respectfully invite you to attend an open meeting sponsored by New York City
HOLD/Honest Open Logical Debate on Math Reform scheduled for Wednesday, June 6,
beginning at 7:00 pm. It will be held at
Tishman Auditorium in Vanderbilt Hall, NYU Law
School, 40 Washington Square So. Distinguished faculty of the Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, as well as mathematicians from
Harvard, University of Rochester, CUNY and Manhattan College, will speak about
TERC, CMP, ARISE and IMP.
Parents’
concern with their children’s progress in mathematics is escalating citywide;
worries are being strongly voiced about aspects of the new math programs just
as full implementation takes hold. Parents are tutoring in record numbers. For
many of their children, the new constructivist programs fail to provide a sound
foundation in basic arithmetic.
Concerned
parents have reached out to the NYU mathematics community for analysis and
opinion of our programs in hopes of finding ways to amend or extend the
implemented programs to reach a better balance in the math instruction.
We sincerely hope you will take an interest in our concerns and efforts to advance the course of math education for our children.
E-mail: carchu@msn.com