Math may start to look more traditional at some Georgia schools, because new state School Superintendent Richard Woods wants to let school districts be able to choose between new “integrated” math and more traditional “discrete” math instruction.
Integrated math classes combine such subjects as algebra, geometry and statistics, instead of breaking them up into separate, or discrete, courses.
Georgia first adopted integrated math in 2008, when Math I, II and III replaced geometry and algebra.
But integrated math hasn’t won popularity contests. A Georgia Board of Education survey released in September found that 84 percent of math teachers who responded didn’t like it.
Richard WoodsFormer state school superintendent John Barge, who stepped down last year for an unsuccessful run against Gov. Nathan Deal in the Republican primary, made a move toward traditional math in 2012.