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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP. Posted the question because I, like a previous poster, think the math change is extremely flawed. I've simply heard boredom from the kids I know versus excitement. And this is from kids who were previously excited about math. That's concerning to me.[/quote]

I would encourage people to go to the Curriculum 2.0 presentation.  I went this past spring and all I can say is what a difference  six months can make.  The Parent Academy Curriculum 2.0 I just went to was much better.  I felt confident they were headed in the right direction.  I think the big questions left for me is one of implementation and parent accountability.  It's always left sort of fuzzy how much hands on project based work kids will get to do.  Or say in math what manipulatives kids will get to use themselves to help with the conceptual understanding.  Also there is the fallback of diffentiation but clearly even before 2.0 not everyone was able to do that well so it's not clear how this time is different.

With accountability to the parents, part of it is that we don't see the assessment in 2.0 terms.  If we only see a sheet with  7 < 17 and double digit addition we know our child can do, it is hard to see how they are growing.  Instead of "show me the money" I want to say "show me the assessment".  If there is an open ended question to engage understanding and my child answered in a way that you believe shows basic understanding but not fluency, please share with me so I can understand.  Show me what mastery conceptual understanding looks like, then let me know the plan to get there and if I can help.  Acknowledge where are the areas they may have mastered and that are indeed review and again what is the plan.  I think with math there has been so much that hasn't gone right over the years where parents had to get outside tutors for math fluency because it was too much emphasis on conceptual, or it spiraled too much, or kid over accelerated that there is already not a lot of trust and lots of anxiety.  Throw in all the parents with math backgrounds and the fact math 
is probably the subject that has changed the most in how it was taught to us and all these studies on how math is the golden key to all these jobs in the future ... I can understand the tension.   It's a shame there is no detailed interim assessment for math, especially for people that no longer have the accelerated options and are under the 2.0 curriculum.
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