The Texas State Board of Education’s Committee on Instruction met Thursday, November 19. One of their agenda items was an update on the implementation of the revised math TEKS. Hence, I was invited to testify about the mathematical process standards since that seemed to be the hot point in today’s hearing. There were a few parents testifying with concerns about how the mathematical process standards seem to be interfering with the math that they feel their kids should be learning. One father expressed frustration with his child having to learn multiple strategies to perform basic computations with whole numbers, rather than […]