Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Deal messed with the math sequence.
My older kids had Algebra in 7th, geometry in 8th at deal.
My current 7th grader has "math 8" in 7th grade but will have Algebra in 8th.
They slowed down and complicated the system. The old path seemed to be fine. The new system seems full of complications and contradictions.
Now they have Math 6, 7 & 8, Algebra, Geometry. Very unclear how they decide who gets what. My solid kid says that there are students 2 years ahead of him in math!?
At a meeting last year, Deal administrators said that there were gaps in learning so they wanted to slow it down and teach math facts more solidly.
However, at the same meeting, they announced an online teach-yourself-a-year-of-math computer program for kids to move themselves up a rung. My then 6th grader (who is probably the best math kid of my 4 kids), tried but said that he preferred to "have a teacher teach it to me", so he won't be in geometry in 8th grade. All because he didn't want to teach himself a year of math over spring break.
Wow, that's really crazy.
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