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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My first-grade son started kindergarten doing multiplication and exploring square and cube roots.  He has a great intuition for how math works and he can solve interesting problems several grade levels ahead.  However, his math computation, while still above average, is comparatively slower because he is still growing his fluency with basic math facts. For now, I'm fine with his school's approach of going deeper rather than faster because mastery of these foundational skills is so valuable for the higher level math that comes later. I would probably think differently if his math fluency were so advanced that he had nothing to gain from more depth.

We supplement at home with Beast Academy as a fun, optional activity during the school year and more regularly in the summer.  I like that Beast Academy also provides depth, but also supports acceleration as he's ready for it. My older daughter's teacher occasionally assigns her algebra problems in iReady that are four grade levels ahead, so she gets some acceleration over and above the Level IV curriculum. I have found that acceleration opportunities vary across FCPS schools.  We've been to two (due to a move) and our current school does a much better job supporting advanced students.  We had little success with a private school during the pandemic -- they refused to offer any math differentiation claiming their curriculum was already advanced, and they didn't have any real policy for handling advanced students.  I'm sure there are better private schools for gifted kids, but our priorities during the pandemic were a safe learning environment, and differentiation was secondary.  (Plus they actually taught phonics when FCPS was still doing Balanced Literacy.) We’ve had more success negotiating differentiation within FCPS. Homeschooling wouldn’t work for my 2e kids who need the structure of a classroom to get anything done, so we have chosen to leverage the public school resources while supplementing at home as needed to keep math fun.[/quote]

How do you negotiate differentiation?[/quote]

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