If your school is currently piloting or offering E3 Math next year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Placing every child in AAP-level math sounds great, and E3 or “equity cubed” essentially does just that.

However, when every child is in AAP, there is no more AAP.

And accelerated-pace learning? The general-education kids will not learn at the accelerated pace used in AAP, so the whole class will have to slow down to the level appropriate for the slowest learners. Acceleration will be lost, and the kids who would previously have been in AAP will be bored, and likely lose interest in learning.

Sure - E3 claims to have anticipated advanced learners needing more/faster pace. E3 says they plan for occasional “pull outs” to give advanced learned a little extra work once in a while.

Pull-outs don’t work the way a dedicated AAP class works. Advanced learners absolutely will get far less under E3.

If your school adopts E3, it will be best for your child to switch to private school.

Stop making up BS stories in an election year.

E3 doesn’t mean eliminating accelerated paths.

“*Opt-Out Policy for high-performing students enrolling in accelerated math starting in 6th grade.”

... as opposed to right now, when students can get accelerated starting from 3rd grade. At least, from some place other than Kumon/AoPS/stable educated parents. Sucks to be smart and poor or have a chaotic home life.

[Anonymous]

At our LLIV orientation, the AART made it sound like the E3 math at our school (who had piloted it for the last year or two, I think) was going away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our LLIV orientation, the AART made it sound like the E3 math at our school (who had piloted it for the last year or two, I think) was going away.

This is great news and a step toward restoring sanity to public education in Fairfax county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our LLIV orientation, the AART made it sound like the E3 math at our school (who had piloted it for the last year or two, I think) was going away.

May I ask which elementary this is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Placing every child in AAP-level math sounds great, and E3 or “equity cubed” essentially does just that.

However, when every child is in AAP, there is no more AAP.

And accelerated-pace learning? The general-education kids will not learn at the accelerated pace used in AAP, so the whole class will have to slow down to the level appropriate for the slowest learners. Acceleration will be lost, and the kids who would previously have been in AAP will be bored, and likely lose interest in learning.

Sure - E3 claims to have anticipated advanced learners needing more/faster pace. E3 says they plan for occasional “pull outs” to give advanced learned a little extra work once in a while.

Pull-outs don’t work the way a dedicated AAP class works. Advanced learners absolutely will get far less under E3.

If your school adopts E3, it will be best for your child to switch to private school.

Stop making up BS stories in an election year.

E3 doesn’t mean eliminating accelerated paths.

“*Opt-Out Policy for high-performing students enrolling in accelerated math starting in 6th grade.”

Your reply tells me you never had a kid in K-2 that was above the standard pace of the class - largely on computers or solo reading, rarely meeting with the teacher in small groups. Those of us that did have those kids KNOW that “AAP for all!” Means basically shifting back to that K-2 model of kids of all abilities in the same class which means of course it will move slower. It will be super rare for a parent to opt their kid out of the default track onto a Lower one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our LLIV orientation, the AART made it sound like the E3 math at our school (who had piloted it for the last year or two, I think) was going away.

Some schools began the E3 pilot in 2021-22; those third graders would now be in 5th. What Math SOL are those kids taking in 5th grade -- Math 5 SOL or Math 6 SOL?