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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 5th grader who has been in Compact Math was recently recommended by her math teacher that she be placed in math 6.0 next year instead of IM. I was quite surprised as we never heard she was struggling and shes been getting all As in her report card plus Map scores have been great. Teacher said she thinks she would be better in the regular math as IM is very fast paced. Has anyone have had a similar experience? Just want to know if this is normal (for kids to move to math 6.0 after compact math in ES). I just want to make sure she's placed in the right class. I definitely don't want her to get bored considering a lot of the things they'll be going over next yr is a repeat of this year, no? [/quote]

It does happen and the current teacher's advice is important to consider.  However, when we went to our MS parent intro meeting a few years back, the counselors there strongly suggested erring on the side of challenging kids.  In our case this meant we decided to push for foreign language in 6th grade.  DC's placement was moved up and he ended up completing three years of French in MS with As and no struggles.  You might also check on how IM is arranged at your school. My DC was placed in IM after compacted in 5th, but at the time, DC was in a mixed class with 6th & 7th graders in IM.  This actually meant the IM class moved slower than if it was entirely above grade level 6th graders.  (Also, this was before the possibility of enriched IM, however that has played out, if may mean there are now three groupings of sixth graders, math 6, regular IM, enriched IM) I suspect schools have moved away from mixing 6th & 7th IM, but if not ,it's another reason to consider staying in IM.  But the real point is, even though the 5th grade teachers are good at assessing current progress, they don't always know the details of the MS, so try to get info from the MS, too--either the counselor or the math content specialist.[/quote]

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