Proposed new

guides for teaching math to your children are available for public review

at the Board of Education office, 210 Stonewall Ave., Fayetteville.

"This

is the best math curriculum guide that Fayette County has ever had,"

said Mary Elizabeth Mendenhall of Kedron Elemetnary School, who cochaired

a team of educators that wrote the new guides over a three-week period.

Also chairing the committee were Greg Mason of Fayette County High School

and Angie Meredith of Burch Elementary.

The National

Council of Teachers of Math revised national math standards about 18 months

ago, Mendenhall reminded the Board of Education during its monthly meeting

Monday night. The local board revised Fayette's math programs accordingly

last spring and adopted a new math textbook series.

The new curriculum

guides will now incorporate those changes for local teachers so that everyone

is on the same page, said Mendenhall.

Under the new

program, students will encounter more complex math concepts in first through

fifth grade. They'll be exposed to algebra and problem solving concepts.

Math teachers

coming into Fayette from other areas will find time lines and daily planners

in the guides to get them functioning quickly in Fayette's system, said

Mendenhall, adding that the guides are written so that the public can

use them to understand how math is being taught.

School board

members will review the guides, covering kindergarten through 12th grade,

with plans to act on them Sept. 17.

Copies are

in the board's meeting room if you want to take a look.