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[quote=Anonymous]I attended the parent night for the middle school that my child will attend next year and was surprised to see a new math pathway offered that allows acceleration for students who weren't in compacted math in elementary school. The pathways shown were: compacted math in elementary school --> AIM (applied investigations in math) in 6th --> Algebra 1 --> Honors Geometry (existing accelerated pathway) Math 5 in 5th (non compacted) --> Math 6 --> Math 7 --> Math 8 (one of the existing non-accelerated pathways) Math 5 in 5th --> Math 6 --> Math 7 --> Algebra 1 (partially new -- used to do IM in 7th grade before Algebra 1) Math 5 in 5th --> Math 6+ (new class, combines 6th grade standards with half of 7th grade standards) --> Math 7+ (half of 7th/all of 8th grade math) --> Algebra 1 (new pathway) So it's a new way for kids to get to Algebra in 8th by basically compacting 6th-8th grade math into two years (6th and 7th grade). It uses the Illustrative Math curriculum that's being used in middle schools. It looks like this will eliminate IM for 7th and 8th graders, while keeping AIM for 6th graders (at least for now -- I could see them changing that in the future to somehow use the Illustrative Math curriculum to cover the appropriate content). There's a description in the Westland course bulletin here (Westland is not my kid's middle school, but I went looking for a written description and found this -- see page 12): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WPKJItDnIu1JaqxJw5JHwdxhdFBAOW3s/view I think it looks like a good option to allow flexibility for kids to accelerate in middle school without skipping course content.[/quote]
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