CAMARILLO : School Picked for State Math Program
Camarillo’s Monte Vista Intermediate School has been chosen to participate in a new state program designed to help children apply mathematics to everyday life.
The state approved about 75 middle schools around California to participate in the pilot program, which focuses on eighth-grade students, said Joan Akers, a state mathematics education consultant. Most of the schools that applied were approved and are being notified this week, she said.
The state announced the project in June after test results showed that California middle school students placed in the bottom third among states in mathematics achievement, Akers said.
The program will be taught this year by two eighth-grade math teachers at each of the selected schools, Akers said.
The program, called Math Renaissance, aims “to get kids thinking and reasoning more about mathematics . . . so there will be less memorizing and regurgitating,” Akers said.
The first new subject the students will study this year is growth patterns in real life, Akers said. One problem they will be given is to determine how many new schools a growing school district will need in the future, she said.
Monte Vista has about 710 seventh- and eighth-grade students.
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