{"id":12861,"date":"2022-05-05T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12861"},"modified":"2022-05-05T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:10:17","slug":"brian-conrad-on-the-california-mathematics-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12861","title":{"rendered":"Brian Conrad on the California Mathematics Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Conrad has been doing the state of California a great service by taking a careful look at the drafts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/ci\/ma\/cf\/\">proposed California Mathematics Framework<\/a> and the research they are supposedly based on.\u00a0\u00a0 He has recently created a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/publiccommentsonthecmf\/\">website<\/a> where he has been writing up commentary on what he has found.  Conrad is known among his colleagues as one of the most careful and level-headed research mathematicians around, and these characteristics show through in what I have read on his new site.<\/p>\n<p>I should make it clear that personally I have zero expertise on the topic of K-12 math education, so my own views on the matter aren&#8217;t worth much (and, I think anyone commenting on this should ask themselves about the same issue).  Conrad has put a huge amount of his time and effort into learning about the subject and the extensive relevant math education research, and it is this that makes paying attention to the views of a university math professor a good idea in this case.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s commentary about this appearing elsewhere, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/stanford-prof-debunks-research-behind-new-california-k-12-math-standards-11651607997\">a Wall Street Journal article<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu\/2022\/05\/05\/california-math-framework\/\">a blog entry<\/a> by my Columbia colleague Andrew Gelman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Conrad has been doing the state of California a great service by taking a careful look at the drafts of the proposed California Mathematics Framework and the research they are supposedly based on.\u00a0\u00a0 He has recently created a website &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12865,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions\/12865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}