These math textbooks don't add up

Printing errors. Typos. Page bound upside down. That's what school districts in the San Gabriel Valley and beyond are dealing with in some new math textbooks. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune has details:

Newly purchased, state-approved K-5 math books are flooded with errors that include typos, answer-key mistakes and changes in terminology, officials said. Azusa Unified School District received Texas editions of a teacher reference guide and have error- filled tests from publisher Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Covina-Valley Unified School District has to replace all its fifth-grade books after receiving a draft version from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Comments

[Thomas Powell]

What kind of world do we live in, where we cannot rely on our own educational books to supply us with CORRECT information. Recently, DISD had some financial problems regarding 84 million dollars and its "whereabouts". Is this a pattern affecting schools across America?
What should the students expect to happen next, a mass act of resignation by many teachers? A class lecturing over the morally correct choices the Bush Administration chose? Or a class where everyone comes in and sits down, to learn nothing. I know all too well about the latter.
The fact that no one took the time to make sure those books were in correct format before allowing purchase shows a lack of caring on the publisher. It just astounds me that even if they check one book, every ten to fifteen books, for continuity, then how come this major “blunder” made into a school?
I do not know who is responsible for it, but I do know this, I will second-guess any information I receive from textbooks from know on. I will no longer accept the information at face value, and will make sure to test the information.
It is an outrage that I must take these measures to ensure my grade is high and correct educational teachings are given to me. Hopefully in the future, I won’t have to deal with this in college.