Curriculum Night Presentation: AIM still using C 2.0 and only some schools supplement it

[Anonymous]

There are links to the recorded presentations now on the agenda document:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR52D3SKMblb9yaVq3IE_R3lJv0TvyzRVlV6Zmeh2fWNI98y0Ub_9cWpGPlvHVUMpW-0BEngh-fuwZn/pubhtml

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm on the curriculum night presentation, and the math specialist for MCPS who is presenting said that AIM is still based on 2.0, that the Johns Hopkins curriculum assessment found there were gaps in the curriculum so some schools (but not all schools) are supplementing with additional Illustrative Mathematics lessons. She said that this is on each school/teacher; central office is not providing a list of supplementary materials. She said she did not have a list of schools that are supplementing, so parents can only find out if they ask the school itself.

Can MS math teachers talk about how AIM is implemented and how kids are doing? It seems like it would be very difficult to teach with a curriculum that has been proven to have gaps.

Didn't know but AIM seemed to be the best math course DC ever had in MCPS up until magnet math.

Yes, AIM is the best math course MCPS has to offer. I hope they keep it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm on the curriculum night presentation, and the math specialist for MCPS who is presenting said that AIM is still based on 2.0, that the Johns Hopkins curriculum assessment found there were gaps in the curriculum so some schools (but not all schools) are supplementing with additional Illustrative Mathematics lessons. She said that this is on each school/teacher; central office is not providing a list of supplementary materials. She said she did not have a list of schools that are supplementing, so parents can only find out if they ask the school itself.

Can MS math teachers talk about how AIM is implemented and how kids are doing? It seems like it would be very difficult to teach with a curriculum that has been proven to have gaps.

Didn't know but AIM seemed to be the best math course DC ever had in MCPS up until magnet math.

Yes, AIM is the best math course MCPS has to offer. I hope they keep it.

Can you say more about what makes AIM good? And it sounds like they are keeping AIM for 6th graders, but they plan to get rid of IM for 7th.

[Anonymous]

Is AIM different from IM? At the online curriculum night presentation that is now posted, the presenter makes it sound like they are different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is AIM different from IM? At the online curriculum night presentation that is now posted, the presenter makes it sound like they are different.

To be clear, different beyond AIM having 6th graders and IM 7th graders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is AIM different from IM? At the online curriculum night presentation that is now posted, the presenter makes it sound like they are different.

To be clear, different beyond AIM having 6th graders and IM 7th graders.

I think not much different. They supposedly add on some special projects to AIM, but that may not always occur.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is AIM different from IM? At the online curriculum night presentation that is now posted, the presenter makes it sound like they are different.

To be clear, different beyond AIM having 6th graders and IM 7th graders.

I think not much different. They supposedly add on some special projects to AIM, but that may not always occur.

It's odd then that MCPS would say that IM has to be pulled because the curriculum doesn't align whereas AIM is fine to move forward. Why not just create a curriculum from Illustrative Mathematics, as they have for 6+ and 7+?

[Anonymous]

One 6th grade AIM teacher has gathered together their own curriculum for AIM using 2.0 as a base and using lessons from Illustrative Mathematics. They makes enough photo copies for all the students because MCPS won't buy the Illustrative Math books for the classes since the AIM curriculum is 2.0, which does not have books. The teacher seems to be doing a great job, and my kid is enjoying math this year, but it must have been so much work for the teacher to pull together this on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One 6th grade AIM teacher has gathered together their own curriculum for AIM using 2.0 as a base and using lessons from Illustrative Mathematics. They makes enough photo copies for all the students because MCPS won't buy the Illustrative Math books for the classes since the AIM curriculum is 2.0, which does not have books. The teacher seems to be doing a great job, and my kid is enjoying math this year, but it must have been so much work for the teacher to pull together this on their own.

Central office should create a pacing guide for AIM/IM based on Illustrative Mathematics, rather than making teachers do it on their own. This is what they have done for compacted math 4/5 and 5/6 with Eureka rather than sticking with 2.0.