Third Grade AAP math
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| Are they really teaching advanced math in 3rd grade AAP math. Its mostly rounding whole numbers not much different from general ed math. I thought they would be doing 4th grade math? |
Anonymous
| Everyone is still assessing. The hard-core learning has not begun. Stay tune for second quarter. |
Anonymous
|
It's never going to be that advanced. The FCPS math curriculum spirals. 3rd and 4th grade math covers a lot of the same topics, but with 4th grade going deeper or adding more complexity. In your case, the advanced math class is rounding larger numbers than the gen ed class. The gen ed class will most likely have another unit on rounding whole numbers in 4th.
Advanced math will introduce the deeper stuff in 3rd, and then skip one spiral through the material. |
Anonymous
| Did they do the Moli Stone project? That's really good, a highlight of AAP 3rd grade math. |
Anonymous
| Third Grade Advanced Math is half of third grade and half of fourth grade. |
Anonymous
|
Considering the fact that my fifth grade AAP student tested advanced in 6th grade math last year- yes.
They teach about a year ahead if not more than other kids. |
Anonymous
+1 This is correct. Then 4th is a refresher and on to 5th grade math. |
Anonymous
All of third and half of fourth you mean, right? And then half of fourth and all of fifty, then sixth. |
Anonymous
Most kids in my fourth grader’s class started complaining around second quarter last year. |
Anonymous
4th grade is rounding numbers. Ha ha ha. |
Anonymous
Rounding to nearest hundred is 4th grade? Wow math standards really went down. |
Anonymous
Yes. They didn’t start Advanced Math until the third quarter for DS Third grade class so it felt like half of Third and half of Fourth. |
Anonymous
| For AAP it does not become a fully advanced class until 5th grade. In 5th grade the kids will take the 6th grade math SOL. In 6th grade they will take the 7th grade math Sol. There may be a handful in 6th grade that may take Algebra. |
Anonymous
| Our kid is doing multiplication, Chinese numbers, decimals… believe the teacher is using the M3 curriculum. I think the first few weeks they did do rounding for 4 digit numbers and something about gickles, brickles |
Anonymous
No, it's spiral curriculum meaning they review content periodically throughout all the grades--and introduce harder things earlier in brief ways and then revisit later. So some pre-algebra in 2nd grade, flies over most kids head, reviewed in 4th grade etc. It's now that they are introducing this as new content. It's often tied to a bigger concept too--so they'll review rounding numbers (or whatever) in order to introduce something new that sort of depends on it. This year they are doing a bit more review than usual to address pandemic gaps, but the AAP math will get you to taking algebra honors in 7th grade--even if you end up not taking it. |