The La Canada Math Parents have published the results of its anonymous elementary math parent survey conducted in late May and early June 2017. Survey results may be viewed on the LCMP website here:
https://lacanadamath.org/lcmp-elementary-math-parent-survey/
The public may analyze and scrutinize the raw survey results in a Google spreadsheet here:
http://bit.ly/lcfmathsurveyraw
Highlights from the survey results:
- 42% of K-5 La Canada public school parents have problems with Everyday Math, not 2% as asserted by District Staff.
- Only 34% of parents believe K-5 math education is above average in LCUSD.
- Only 29% of K-6 students receive differentiation.
- 57% of K-6 students are tutored or supplemented outside of school.
- 51% of those spend two or more hours tutoring in math per week.
- Over 60% of those started tutoring in the last two years.
- 67% of those tutoring in math do not tutor in any other subject.
The results indicate that contrary to assertions made by District staff that concerns with Everyday Mathematics are minuscule, nearly half of La Canada K-5 parents have problems with the curriculum, and a similarly significant percentage of parents are less than satisfied with the quality of elementary mathematics instruction in the district. A whopping 57% of parent respondents indicated they tutor or supplement their child’s math instruction outside of class.
I don’t think the sample size is big enough to determine how accurate these results are. Total elementary students for 2015-16 school year according to Ed Data was just over 2000. You only have 132 responses.