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[quote=Anonymous][quote]My child is in first grade, and is in the supposed "challenge" math group. But it just isn't very challenging. Repetitious, yes, challenging, no. [/quote]

+1000 My child is also in first grade in a school that has implemented 2.0 for her grade. Its frustrating. She gets to do extra worksheets but they are not deeper in any meaningful way from the original ones. It is simply too much repetition. I truly believe that MCPS is just looking to do things as cheaply as possible and keep their scores up.

I'm not a fan of acceleration and do believe that it can leave any child with a lack of conceptual understanding. Some kids are great at recogonizing patterns and memorizing approaches quickly. These are the kids that can accelerate fast but lack the depth of understanding. However, these kids are not gaining any deeper understanding from doing 100 extra worksheets following the same darn pattern.

If I was queen of MCPS I would put money into developing an innovative curricular that combines math skills with reasoning and logic in ways beyond the basic worksheet and word problems. There are fantastic things that you can do with math and reasoning which involve building structures, solving puzzles, and getting kids to think outside the box while learning the concept at a deeper level. [/quote]

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