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[quote=Anonymous]Very good question.

Load for teaching M levels of kids is considerably higher than teaching 1 level kids.   Here, M > 1.

If the materials are independent, a teacher needs M time of effort, in terms either preparation time or book reading or reference checking or teaching time management, etc.

To model this mathematically, we can have a class of N students and they are separated into M groups.  In a math class of L minutes, a teacher must break L minutes into at least M pieces in order to address the need of his/her students.  Is it easy?  I have to say, oh my god.

In fact, it is not at all straightforward to allocate class hours for teaching even for a small number of groups.  Please let me elaborate.  Let me assume L = 50, M = 3,  and N = 20.

Case 1: 
If the number of kids in the 3 groups are roughly equal, a teacher can roughly divide 50 minutes equally.

Case 2:
If group 1 and group 2 have 5 students each, the group 3 has 10 students,  how to manage 50 minutes?

Case 3:
Let group 1 and group 2 have 5 students each, the group 3 has 10 students.  Moreover, group 1 is "ahead" students, group 3 is "behind" students, how to manage 50 minutes?  The materials are of different complexity.

Case 4: 
Let group 1 and group 2 have 5 students each, the group 3 has 10 students.  Moreover, group 1 is "ahead" students, group 2 is "behind" students, how to manage 50 minutes?  The materials are of different complexity.

Finally, I have to say that it is addressed in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" that "Division of labour has caused a greater increase in production than any other factor".  It seems to me that Curriculum 2.0 is trying to do the opposite.

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This is saying allowing kids to go to "ahead" or "behind" grade classes will not increase the work load of teachers and other resources if load/resource depends on number of students. 
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Does the load/resource depend on just the number of kids or does it also depend heavily on the number of different types of lesson plans they need to do?  I.e. if a class has 5 different groups of children with roughly similar levels of understanding of the material wouldn't the teacher have to come up with 5 different sets of lesson plans to successfully challenge these different groups?  [/quote][/quote]

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