What are the Georgia Performance Standards?
The math revisions under the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) are part of sweeping changes to all four core areas math, science, social studies, and language arts implemented over the past several years by the Georgia Department of Education to ramp up the rigor of the state curriculum. The GPS replaces the Quality Core Curriculum, which was criticized as being “a mile wide and an inch deep” when it came to content. All four areas have been implemented, but none has rolled in with the level of controversy the math changes have generated. The primary difference between the “old” math and the current math curriculum is how it is taught, not the content. Rather than focusing on a checklist of what to cover, the new math focuses on mastery of concepts. It integrates all the math concepts at each grade level, instead of one year for Algebra, one year for Geometry and so forth. Students, beginning in kindergarten, will experience age-level concepts in algebra, geometry, probability, measu
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