1.   Many high school teachers claim that the reformed curriculum has dum bed down math teaching.

2.   Moreover, the math teaching used story problems and other methods to drive home the principles of what they were learning.

3.   Other reforms included programs by the National Science Foundation to reinvigorate science and math teaching by drawing working scientists and science majors into classrooms.

4.   The commission clearly placed the burden of improving science and math teaching on states and localities, a major point of emphasis in Georgia under Gov. Roy Barnes.