In Texas, maybe it’s better if they don’t learn too much from the textbooks. The math texts included 109,263 errors, 79% of which came from books published Houghton Mifflin Co..
Students may wish some of the errors had not been uncovered – particularly the inclusion in some books of the answers to math quizzes at the end of each chapter. The answers were supposed to appear only in teacher editions of the books.
In other cases, Spanish versions of the books had incorrect translations. And some computations were just wrong.
Six publishers submitted drafts of their textbooks to the TEA hoping to get in line for selection of the next generation of math books that will be used in Texas public schools.
These are, of course, rough drafts — very rough — but if the errors are not gone by Spring (the season, not the Texas community), publishers will have to cough up $5000 per error. However, since the book contracts are expected to be worth $116.8 million, that may be a small price to pay.
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