Parent's Critical Review of i-Ready Educational Software and Its Impact on Student Math Attitudes
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barry-cotter
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Summary
A parent's personal account of their son's negative experience with the i-Ready educational software program. The article describes how their previously math-loving son developed anxiety and hatred for math after being forced to use i-Ready in first grade, despite the parents being engineers who had fostered his early math enthusiasm. The narrative details the software's implementation in schools, its impact on students' learning attitudes, and raises concerns about educational technology choices made by schools without parental input.
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Before this my son had loved math. He would demand that we challenge him with math problems to do in his head in the car and over dinner.
Even now, years later in 4th grade, he has decided he wants to learn calculus, so he insisted I start explaining it to him as best I could in the car.
When you chose a school, you probably didn't realize you were also choosing educational software.
When you chose a school, you probably didn’t realize you were also choosing educational software.
