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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not “slightly advanced” or “slightly faster-paced” at our center. Math is a full year ahead and the pace is significantly accelerated. I have one child who “needs” AAP and one who could likely have educational needs met in either program, but there are absolutely children in the program who need it. Perhaps not yours and perhaps not the majority, but they do exist. [/quote]

[b]Math is a year ahead starting in 5th grade at most schools.I would not call that a significant difference but that is me. [/b]

I am more surprised that the people who are so invested in AAP for third grade did not do more to participate in LI or maybe they did and they didn't get into those programs. Especially the parents who are desperate for AAP because they don't like their Base school. LI essentially is parental differentiation that starts in K or first grade. [/quote]

Because Virginia's standards are pretty slow in early ES, a year ahead really isn't that significant. Friends who switched to Singapore Math for homeschool from AAP found that their kid who was supposed to be a year ahead was just on grade level in Singapore.[/quote]

I don't have a problem with Virginia's standards. DS is at a good ES. He is in language immersion, so parents are probably more invested then others in their kids education. He has friends in his class who take forever to add three numbers together. At least one of those kids is doing Mathnasium. Math is not intuitive for many kids and they do not grasp it the way people on this board seem to think that they do. The standard is set because kids struggle with math and if they move too much quicker, many of these kids will struggle even more when they get to high school.

DS enjoys math and finds it easy. He is in Advanced Math but he is taking a class at RSM because the math at school is not engaging. The work they are doing at RSM is far ahead of what they are doing in school. We flat out tell him that he should treat his school work as foundational drills to insure that he knows his facts and basic rules cold. Most of his classmates would drown if they were doing the math he is at RSM. And I would bet good money that he is not the brightest kid or most mathematically gifted kid at RSM.

Compare to whatever other country that you want but the US does not track kids the way they do in most European and Asian countries. That is not going to happen. And we are not going to let 80-90% of the class fail so that the math fits the needs of the 10%. A kid who really needs AAP, as in they are legitimately gifted and/or advanced, is not going to get that much more out of it. The math is not that advanced, it just isn't. [/quote]

OP here. Yes, this exactly.[/quote]

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