Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Antonio Calipjo Go is calling the attention of the Department of Education (DepEd) over its textbook, Science Learner’s Material for Grade 4.
Go wrote: “Currently used by Grade 4 pupils studying in public elementary schools nationwide, this 318-page textbook contains 775 errors ranging from conceptual, pedagogical, logical and grammatical errors to errors having to do with simple drawings and illustrations.”
He added, “That a mere grade-school-level textbook could have so many errors — an average of 2.4 errors per page — speaks volumes about the real state of the Philippine public school system.”
What’s even crazier is that the said book was “collaboratively developed” by 14 writers, 2 consultants, 3 illustrators, 1 layout artist, and 1 anchorperson and 2 “managers” from the Bureau of Elementary Education.
To top it all off, the book was printed by Lexicon Press Inc. at a cost of PHP82 million.
Below are some of the errors found in the book, as listed by the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
- To see if sound travels through water, use a large basin filled with water. Hold your breath and place your head inside the water. Try to speak a word.
- Ball-and-sockets joints protect the eyes.
- The bat has to get rid of the large tree by echolocation or else it will bump and hurt its head.
- The start of human life begins after the baby is delivered out by its mother to the world.
- Adulthood is a significant time that adults can give birth.
- Put two pieces of fish inside the aquarium.
- How Important I Am in the Environment? Tell me how may I help you. How Do You Use Me? What are we waiting for!
- You may bump into your vases. Do not use your vases and other display in your house. Do not play in your stairs.
- Describe that sound has the ability to bounce back. We cannot tell which the original sound is and which the echo is.
- You find plants, animals and houses on the soil.
