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posted by:
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Deborah Ball
on May 21, 2003
at 6:18AM
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It depends what we mean by a "focus on curriculum materials"
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No curriculum is complete or perfect. As Jim says, even a flawed
curriculum can effect productive improvement if it is used as a common
site to work on mathematics instruction. It is the sense that the
wider public sometimes gets that we think we have found "the answer" in
a particular curriculum, and we focus on selling it, that gets hackles
up and invites nitpicking on particular lesson. Curriculum materials
provide common ground for instruction -- structure, ideas, sequence,
representations, problems, and the like. But wide adaptation of
curriculum is always needed -- the issue is what is adaptation and what
is distortion?
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