Before I start, let me really, really, (did I say really?) encourage you to go to this article A New Age for Algebra , by Lindsay Oishi. Sure it's got some of the same stuff that you have heard already, but it really hits home how much we NEED to support our educators, and not reduce them to budget cut decisions, or "not right fits" because of personality or pedagogical differences. In the monthly newsletter, Summing Up , NCTM President J. Michael Shaughnessy addresses in his editorial, Let's not Forget Geometry! , that Geometry is just as important as Algebra, but tends to get shoved to the side. Though not necessarily in favor of a CORE+ style delivery of mathematics, I do think that the Integrated Mathematics approach helps balance this load. I have to say I agree with the comments Shaughnessy makes. Even as an Algebra teacher, I was not hog wild about math until I took Geometry. That cued me into my other areas of learning, as I am very much a visual (and t
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