Spring update

Well life is always very busy in the spring for teachers... and this year has been no exception. With the release of the draft for the core curriclum standard for mathematic, many of us have been spending time evaluating our curriclum to see how it measures up to these new standards.

So where does that leave the michigan mathematics project? Actually, in great shape!

With only a couple of exceptions, the draft of the textbook for Algebra I thus far has done a supurbe job of lining up the the new standards and recomendations for an algebra I course! But the really nice thing about an open source textbook is that it can ALWAYS be changed or improved to accomidate both inovation and a shifting educational environment.

Although things have been slow in development lately here at Michigan Math, as the spring semester ends and summer time begins, we should again see rapid improvements in existing documents, methodologies and new documents.

By the end of this summer, we will see a first revsion and all existing documents for algebra I. Hopefully we will begin to promote michiganmath.org by the end of the summer. And begin work on the open source Algebra II book by the end of the year.

There is one more consideration to make... a site name change. Although I enjoy the Michigan reference in the name MichiganMath.org, I am considering changing the name of the site to one of the following:
-www.nationalmath.org
-www.corestandardsmathematics.org
-www.corestandardsmath.org
-www.opensourcemathtext.org
-www.mymathtext.org