The School Board plans to vote Monday on a new math curriculum for kindergarten through eighth grade after a task force concluded some of the district’s current instructional materials are “outdated.”
School district administrators say the proposed curriculum from Arizona-based Illustrative Mathematics checked many of their boxes after a thorough selection process, and a nonprofit that reviews instructional materials gives it strong ratings.
However, Illustrative’s curriculum has prompted backlash in New York public schools in recent years, becoming tangled in “math wars” debates about the best way to approach teaching the subject…