New middle school math pathway

[Anonymous]

Am I understanding correctly that this is not adding a new accelerated option, but rather giving kids a chance to get back up to grade level if they somehow slipped along the way?

Or is it to get kids up to the "one step advanced" level if they didn't do compacted math but were late bloomers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I understanding correctly that this is not adding a new accelerated option, but rather giving kids a chance to get back up to grade level if they somehow slipped along the way?

Or is it to get kids up to the "one step advanced" level if they didn't do compacted math but were late bloomers?

It is not a new accelerated option for the kids who are already accelerated (those who did compacted math).

It appears to be a new on-grade-level option to get kids to Algebra in 8th grade, which is the on-grade-level track. It used to be Math 6, IM, Algebra 1 (so IM combined math 7th and 8th standards to get ready for Algebra). It is now Math 6+, 7+, Algebra 1, so stretching the "acceleration" needed to get from Math 6 to Algebra across two years (the Illustrative Math curriculum being used in middle schools seems to assume that Algebra is a 9th grade class, so things need to be compacted somewhere to get that far by 8th grade).

The presentation last night also showed the Math 6, Math 7, Math 8 path (below the grade level target), and a Math 6 or 6+, Math 7, Algebra path, but it's not clear when/how that would be used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I understanding correctly that this is not adding a new accelerated option, but rather giving kids a chance to get back up to grade level if they somehow slipped along the way?

Or is it to get kids up to the "one step advanced" level if they didn't do compacted math but were late bloomers?

It is not a new accelerated option for the kids who are already accelerated (those who did compacted math).

It appears to be a new on-grade-level option to get kids to Algebra in 8th grade, which is the on-grade-level track. It used to be Math 6, IM, Algebra 1 (so IM combined math 7th and 8th standards to get ready for Algebra). It is now Math 6+, 7+, Algebra 1, so stretching the "acceleration" needed to get from Math 6 to Algebra across two years (the Illustrative Math curriculum being used in middle schools seems to assume that Algebra is a 9th grade class, so things need to be compacted somewhere to get that far by 8th grade).

The presentation last night also showed the Math 6, Math 7, Math 8 path (below the grade level target), and a Math 6 or 6+, Math 7, Algebra path, but it's not clear when/how that would be used.

This is all really school specific so this may be for your school only. Algebra in 7/8 is pretty common now. Some schools offer algebra in 6th, others don't. Every school has different offerings.

[Anonymous]

I think the rising 6th Grade kids who have been in the new "compacted" Eureka this year (and last spring) are getting pretty screwed. Whole lessons are being skipped in the Eureka curriculum, due to compacting. But some of the choices for skipped lessons seem to seriously undermine the kids ability to solve problems. I think it is fortunate that "(A)IM" is a lot of repetition of previously taught concepts.