Is it time for NC to approve ‘sweeping reform’ for how math is taught in schools?

State Superintendent Catherine Truitt presented her “comprehensive math reform’ proposal to a state legislative committee.

The plan includes 60 minutes of daily K-8 math instruction, requiring schools to notify parents if their children are having math difficulties.

The goal is to get students ready for Math 1, which students take in eighth grade or high school.

His comments come after the state’s 2012 adoption of controversial Common Core math standards — since revised — and the debate over whether new social studies standards are too “divisive.” “I think no matter where you go on this globe, math and science stay the same,” Torbett said. “Nothing changes. Two plus two is four both here as well as in other parts of the globe.”.