What’s the difference between compacted math and accelerated math?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Compacted math starts in 4th grade. Its for 4th graders who take something with 4/5th math. So, its a bit faster. In 5th, they do 5/6 grade math.

No longer after next year. MCPS is trashing Compacted Math in the name of equity.

[Anonymous]

I think they are going back to letting kids accelerate as was done pre 2.0 either one or two years ahead. Compacted math was cobbled together at the last minute due to parent complaints. It was never a well thought out curriculum.

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Anonymous wrote:There is maybe accelerated math in 2nd grade at TPES. If you are at TPES, then you should ask TPES parents about it, because they are the only ones likely to know.

If you are not at TPES, then most likely it just means your kid is good at math. They don't skip them grades or go out of the normal sequence except in very extraordinary circumstances.

And then those TPES second graders become 3rd graders at PBES where there is no accelerated math in 3rd grade. They have to sit through lessons repeating what they learned in 2nd - slowly having their love of math dissolved from the boredom.

DC went through the accelerated math at TPES and when they started 3rd at PBES they were assigned to a small group within their 3rd grade class that continued where they had left off in second. At 8 the child scored in the high 240s on their MAP-P and received a 5 on their PARC.

That was our experience at PBES as well. There aren't specific math classes in 3rd grade but small groups that function the same as small reading groups. Students are grouped with others at a similar level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Compacted math starts in 4th grade. Its for 4th graders who take something with 4/5th math. So, its a bit faster. In 5th, they do 5/6 grade math.

Not true. They offer compacted and accelerated in 2nd at our school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Compacted math starts in 4th grade. Its for 4th graders who take something with 4/5th math. So, its a bit faster. In 5th, they do 5/6 grade math.

Not true. They offer compacted and accelerated in 2nd at our school.

Is your school implementing the new math curriculum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Compacted math starts in 4th grade. Its for 4th graders who take something with 4/5th math. So, its a bit faster. In 5th, they do 5/6 grade math.

Not true. They offer compacted and accelerated in 2nd at our school.

Is your school implementing the new math curriculum?

What school? Is it MCPS or elsewhere in MD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Compacted math starts in 4th grade. Its for 4th graders who take something with 4/5th math. So, its a bit faster. In 5th, they do 5/6 grade math.

Not true. They offer compacted and accelerated in 2nd at our school.

Is your school implementing the new math curriculum?

What school? Is it MCPS or elsewhere in MD?

MCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grade daughter is in compacted math, in previous years she had "enrichment" or "acceleration" or whatever, which meant she received an additional math sheet once a week.

I also have a high schooler who has been through the fast math track, and want to insert a warning to parents with younger children: the advanced math track in high school goes FAST, and there is so much material to cover that a lot of previously successful students struggle mightily. My son is in that category. Food for thought...

+1 I don’t this MCPS is good at letting parents/students know this. For some kids, perhaps not such a big deal, but you really don’t know in many cases until you get there if your kid will have trouble or not as the prior math classes are much easier and move more slowly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grade daughter is in compacted math, in previous years she had "enrichment" or "acceleration" or whatever, which meant she received an additional math sheet once a week.

I also have a high schooler who has been through the fast math track, and want to insert a warning to parents with younger children: the advanced math track in high school goes FAST, and there is so much material to cover that a lot of previously successful students struggle mightily. My son is in that category. Food for thought...

+1 I don’t this MCPS is good at letting parents/students know this. For some kids, perhaps not such a big deal, but you really don’t know in many cases until you get there if your kid will have trouble or not as the prior math classes are much easier and move more slowly.

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The current pathway for kids who have Compacted Math in 4th and 5th is:
6th--IM (which is Pre-Algebra)
7th--Algebra I
8th--Geometry
9th--Algebra II
10th--Pre-Calculus
11th--Calculus
and then MD requires you to still take another year of math in 12th.

If I had to do it over again, I'd be fine with my kid slowing down and taking Calculus in 12th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grade daughter is in compacted math, in previous years she had "enrichment" or "acceleration" or whatever, which meant she received an additional math sheet once a week.

I also have a high schooler who has been through the fast math track, and want to insert a warning to parents with younger children: the advanced math track in high school goes FAST, and there is so much material to cover that a lot of previously successful students struggle mightily. My son is in that category. Food for thought...

+1 I don’t this MCPS is good at letting parents/students know this. For some kids, perhaps not such a big deal, but you really don’t know in many cases until you get there if your kid will have trouble or not as the prior math classes are much easier and move more slowly.

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The current pathway for kids who have Compacted Math in 4th and 5th is:
6th--IM (which is Pre-Algebra)
7th--Algebra I
8th--Geometry
9th--Algebra II
10th--Pre-Calculus
11th--Calculus
and then MD requires you to still take another year of math in 12th.

If I had to do it over again, I'd be fine with my kid slowing down and taking Calculus in 12th.

For those in elementary schools that are implementing the new math curriculum starting this 2019-2020 academic year, do you know how this pathway will change? I see above that the compacted math will no longer exist, but does that mean that all kids (grade 5, for example) will be in the same level of math, without differentiation or enrichment? (In the current scheme, the 5th grade compacted math would do all of 5th grade math with half of 6th). thanks.