The text books suck
This is something that I've felt for the past 6 years of teaching and for some reason it's just now reaching the point where I feel I have to rant. I HATE the textbooks that my district has for math, I don't even think they can be called textbooks since they're just consumable booms with pages that can be torn out.
They're terrible, they don't have any actual institutions in them on how to solve the problems because they're paired with a presentation. The presentation is just an overloaded mess of slides. The "examples" in the book don't have any space for students to make notes, since that's what they're supposed to do I guess. It's only 4 practice problems that have only enough space for the answer and no work. The biggest kicker for me is the online version is the exact same thing, and it doesn't even fit on the screen.
The textbooks are a mess across the board and I hate it. I barely even use the things. We do notes by hand and I find appropriate worksheets online.
Posted Sep 25, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC