Integrated Math roll out?
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Anonymous
That's hearsay, not a source. |
Anonymous
This is incorrect. The new integrated sequence is trimming material not needed for NON calculus track. |
Anonymous
Thanks for posting this. From a glance of the notes from the most recent 2 meetings, it seems like the committee seems to recognize there's a gap between AI2 and Pre-Calc and is trying to figure out how to bridge it. |
Anonymous
You really have not been paying attention, have you? Schools with greater needs associated with lack of wealth and difficulty with language have used their limited funding, which is not fully proportional to that need, more and more for those populations, particularly as test data shows widening gaps. In doing so, they have reduced funding for such classes for students at those schools with higher academic need. They have reinforced this by discouraging students from reaching for advanced options in the first place and imposing unnecessary prerequisite requirements, even when there are enough students able and willing to enroll in a course. (E.g., "I don't care what other schools allow. Here we say Calc AB before Calc BC." -- BC incorporates AB, of course, just moving faster to cover the next level, but that approach lets them stretch it over two years so they don't have to offer more to advanced students). The results? Better students apply to magnets just to access what should be available at their home school, but few get in. The marginal brain drain, meanwhile, is self-reinforcing, with the kicker of fewer helping provide examples to others combining with lack of awareness of options among the community, hampering the very progress among those not performing well which they seek to engender. |
Anonymous
This! |
Anonymous
If a kid has a bad day and doesn’t do great on the ap exam, which has to be a 4 or 5, no 3 allowed, they cannot do dual enrollment for MC. So, that can leave them without a year of math to graduate if you include statistics one year. |
Anonymous
You can take math 182 (calc 2)over the summer to fill in the gaps that left to getting a 3 (equivalent to a C) or lower on Calc BC. It's not a good idea to continue into calc 3 without a solid understanding of calc 1 and 2. |
Anonymous
| PP up there, please. ame a school and a year that had a class full of kids so tried to sign up for a class it were refused, so we can help advocate for them. |
Anonymous
Just because you don't do well on the AP exam doesn't mean yu don't have a good understanding. Calc 3 is much easier than Calc BC. And, MCPS doesn't offer Calc BC over the summer and MC will not let you take Calc 2, without taking Calc 1 first. |
Anonymous
What do you think you can do? This has been going on for years and nothing will change. Let's stop with the pretend caring. |
Anonymous
We have access to that data? Where? Seriously, just turn your thought on its head. Show us the enrollment in all the classes for each school beyond those available/held regularly at all schools. Is every level of every non-Spanish/non-French language class at Whitman full? Same for all of their advanced STEM/electives not commonly available across the system? ELA/writing/Humanities? They don't have magnets in those subject areas (yet). And that would just be one bit. How many class sections does Whitman need to run to address remedial need, and how does this affect available funding levels for the above (high-level/relatively bespoke class options) relative to other schools? How has having had those advanced/elective classes available for years enabled consideration/planning/reaching by families/students that would be less common in the catchments of schools where such options are less well known or simply known to be out of reach from the perspective of that which MCPS supplies to them with its paradigm? Nice declining to use the reply function so that that context and nuance of the equity thought you are challenging might get lost. The thought that MCPS should not have to address individual need on a reasonably equivalent basis across schools is flat out wrong, and the insinuation that students in less wealthy areas wouldn't be interested in greater academic opportunity in any number large enough to field a class is disgusting. |
Anonymous
Please... not the "bad test taker" myth. If you are solid, you will at least get a 4 on the exam, which has one of the highest pass rates. |
Anonymous
I agree with you, but that is not what MCPS and MSDE are saying. |
Anonymous
DP. Where are you seeing that? Here is from one of the set of minutes: Ruth Goldstraw and Kevin Dalismer raised concerns that some students may not be fully prepared for Precalculus after Integrated Algebra 2 and suggested an optional bridge course. Robert Richardson clarified that (1) AP Precalculus requires no prerequisites beyond Integrated Algebra 2; (2) dual enrollment remains available in all pathways; and (3) Maryland intends to use co-requisite or alongside support rather than adding courses that could slow progress or create inequitable tracking. Sign your kids up for AOPS and RSM! https://marylandpublicschools.org/about/documents/dcaa/math/sfvc/secondary/2025-12-04-meeting-2-minutes-a.pdf |
Anonymous
We aren't talking about Whitman that has enough classes. Get out of your W school bubble. Smart kids are all over the county. |