4th Graders Skip Math 4/5 and attend Math 5/6?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you do this? I know it’s nice to be able to brag but if your kid really is that great at math they can follow normal accelerated sequence and go to SMCS magnet for HS.

They can? Not everyone gets to smcs! Duh.

Then maybe not that gifted?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is that possible/allowed in MCPS ES? I heard some 3rd graders score 250+ in MAP-M can request that. No sure if it is true or not...

When DC was in 3rd and scored over 250 on their map-m I asked but was told that wasn't allowed at our school.

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[Anonymous]

Kids in our East County school have done this. There have been kids from lower grades in my daughter’s 4/5 and 5/6 math classes. 2 kids in her grade go to the media center and take higher math online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids in our East County school have done this. There have been kids from lower grades in my daughter’s 4/5 and 5/6 math classes. 2 kids in her grade go to the media center and take higher math online.

I asked at our DCC school, but our principal said it wasn't an option. DC entered 6th grade in AIM but scored nearly 300 on their MAP-M.

[Anonymous]

Literally who cares? There is so much more math in MCPS than _any_ field will ever require (just ask the successful engineers who post here who 'only' took calc in HS and then elected to repeat in college anyway). The number of kids who are truly off-chart gifted _and_ off-chart curious/ambitious on their own (without parental aspirations) is a heck of a lot smaller than DCUM likes to pretend it is.

[Anonymous]

Yes, PP, win that race to the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids in our East County school have done this. There have been kids from lower grades in my daughter’s 4/5 and 5/6 math classes. 2 kids in her grade go to the media center and take higher math online.

I asked at our DCC school, but our principal said it wasn't an option. DC entered 6th grade in AIM but scored nearly 300 on their MAP-M.

What are you doing for math enrichment? School math class must be a chore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, PP, win that race to the bottom.

The bottom of what, exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids in our East County school have done this. There have been kids from lower grades in my daughter’s 4/5 and 5/6 math classes. 2 kids in her grade go to the media center and take higher math online.

Ditto my child's former East County school. Honestly, the kids who did this were genuinely the off-the-charts gifted kids, not just the well-prepared ones. This seems like the right approach to me - save the dramatic acceleration for the sliver of kids who need it, and everyone else is perfectly fine to take AP Calculus in Junior year, which is still ahead of the national norm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids in our East County school have done this. There have been kids from lower grades in my daughter’s 4/5 and 5/6 math classes. 2 kids in her grade go to the media center and take higher math online.

Ditto my child's former East County school. Honestly, the kids who did this were genuinely the off-the-charts gifted kids, not just the well-prepared ones. This seems like the right approach to me - save the dramatic acceleration for the sliver of kids who need it, and everyone else is perfectly fine to take AP Calculus in Junior year, which is still ahead of the national norm.

That would be fine if they were absolutely open and communicative about the standards (i.e., down to cut scores, detailed adjustments and de-identified results of prior appeals), did a better job of identification, employing more ability-realated metrics, ensured communication met the purpose of broad awareness & understanding across communities, and ensured equal access to advanced programming no matter the zip code/cohort.

Oh, and continued to ensure reasonable and equitably-accessible enrichments (and associated identification) for those high-but-not-ultra-high fliers to meet those kids where they are, too. All of this, of course, would require...(clap, clap)...more funding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to do that anyway?

This. The obsession with insane math acceleration in this county knows no end it seems.

It's because our math curriculum is massively dumbed down versus other countries. It's not acceleration in a global context.

This. And forget other countries. Even in America, I have a friend the West Coast whose kid is doing Algebra in 5th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It depends on your school.

Virtual Academy is going away.

You can skip any math class if you're at a WPES.

What is WPES?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on your school.

Virtual Academy is going away.

You can skip any math class if you're at a WPES.

What is WPES?

Wealthy Potomac Elementary School. Where all the best students go!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to do that anyway?

This. The obsession with insane math acceleration in this county knows no end it seems.

It's because our math curriculum is massively dumbed down versus other countries. It's not acceleration in a global context.

This. And forget other countries. Even in America, I have a friend the West Coast whose kid is doing Algebra in 5th.

ONE KID

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, PP, win that race to the bottom.

The bottom of what, exactly?

Bottom of knowledge and skill.