THE LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD has proposed a return to teaching basic skills math, which places a greater emphasis on such key skills as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

The changes would move the district away from "integrated math," a reform effort that has provoked both praise and fury in its six years in Los Angeles schools. Integrated math tries to make math more relevant To students by stressing the concepts that underlie math's many formulae, procedures and proofs.

Backers credit integrated math with reaching children turned off by multiplication tables and say it has dramatically increased the number of African-American students taking college-prep math classes. Opponents claim it produces students with such weak basic skills that they can't handle college-level work.

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