A critique of Everyday Math

In response to my last email about different approaches to teaching math, a friend commented:

This past fall, I worked with a child going to PS 29, which uses Everyday Math.  At the start of the 3rd grade, he was already 1.5 years behind grade level. Everyday Math did not serve him well.  He was slow at problem solving, and often got lost using very complicated ways of solving simple addition and subtraction problems. I tutored him on nights and weekends using Singapore Math, a back to basics curriculum, and brought him to grade level in about 5 weeks.

 

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