VA math changes - ways to speak out
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Anonymous
We don’t know which HS it is.... 
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Anonymous
One of the presentations did say they were going to pilot it. I can dig it up tomorrow. |
Anonymous
People have posted how the high school can be identified. Check earlier in the thread for the process. |
Anonymous
They have said they are piloting the new semester classes for 11-12th. Nothing on the plan to pilot the new K-10 path. |
Anonymous
That’s disappointing- I think a pilot would be critical for success for such a big change. |
Anonymous
They're supposed to do group work, so they can do the work for the other kids in the class. And/or teach their struggling peers (because the smarter peers are definitely better teachers than the... credentialed teacher in the classroom, obviously.) |
Anonymous
And dumber kids that comprise of 95% of the class are totally not going to bully the smarter kids out of the enjoyment of learning. |
Anonymous
| Have they said whether kids who are now in 5th or 6th (vast majority of whom have not yet started the Algebra I, Geometry path) will be affected? Or would current 5th graders still move on to Algebra I in 2-3 years? |
Anonymous
It is speculating until it is implemented and people see it in action. At this point several years worth of kids have been put thru inferior classes. |
Anonymous
In LCPS, any 6th grader who is in Math 6 will not be able to take algebra. If they are in prealgebra or foundations of algebra in 6th grade, they will be able to take algebra and geometry at some point instead of the new courses. |
Anonymous
The original Railside has been used as an examplar, without people knowing what high school it was. Then when the data was checked by people who managed to get around the refusal to provide the names, it was found that Railside was not performing better than the comparison schools after all. |
Anonymous
That's strange, because students who take precalculus in 8th grade are given the option of moving to integrated math 9 or algebra. If algebra is already covered in integrated math 8, then how will kids who have only had prealgebra going to move to integrated math 9? It would be extra strange if they are saying on the one hand that it is a mistake to have kids accelerate because they are not getting a deeper understanding, and then they are going to have all students accelerate to algebra in 8th grade. I had a teacher tell me they considered doing an integrated math curriculum combining algebra 1-geometry-algebra 2 into TWO years of instruction. They considered it, but decided against it because of transfers. However, this would have been done without removing tracking. Presumably this would have been an option for the more advanced kids. |
Anonymous
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“ if they are saying on the one hand that it is a mistake to have kids accelerate because they are not getting a deeper understanding, ”
They are saying this but have not cited any data I recall showing that is true. |
Anonymous
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“ It is speculating until it is implemented and people see it in action”
How they will deal with ensuring kids are prepared to actually take calculus senior year with the new progression is speculation. But it is not speculation that they are doing away with honors/AAP/ability grouping. They are very clear on that front in the webinars although they use different words. They say all kids will be in heterogeneous classes learning the same content k-10. Within those the only thing they will offer the faster kids is “deeper” math on that topic - whatever that means. They also talk a lot about needing to use “group worthy” math techniques- so lots of group work for math eating up time rather than actually practicing the math problems to have them sink in well. |
Anonymous
You think 95% of kids are “dumb”? You are the problem they are trying to fix. |