Published on Monday, February 08, 2010
By Redlands Daily Facts Staff Writer
REDLANDS - Algebra textbooks will be the topic of discussion at Tuesday's Redlands Unified School District Board of Education meeting.
District Director of Curriculum and Instruction Sue Buster will present her department's Algebra Textbook Adoption and Implementation Plan for 2010-2011.
"We won't be making an actual recommendation until March," Buster said. "We're just walking through it with the board members. It not only has to do with textbooks, but also contains a game plan for improving math instruction in the classrooms."
Buster plans to describe why middle and high school-level algebra classes need new textbooks.
"With the budget crisis, we really looked at what we need and what we can do without," Buster said. "Our current textbooks are really meeting our needs (except for algebra textbooks). We can do without new ones for now. We have been saving for math. We looked at all the test data across the board and the area of most need is algebra
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