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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is horrible.  Basically kids from states/ counties other than MCPS that are new to MCPS will score higher because they didn't have deceleration/"let's teach everyone the exact same at the same time in math" for grades 1-3 and/or parents that prepped their kids outside of school will be the ones having a huge advantage getting into compact math.  And the decision in 3rd grade impacts math tracking all the way until high school.  In addition, this should be a test that ALL third graders take - not the "selected ones only."  This increased the achievement gap, not decreases it.[/quote]

There was no deceleration. All that MCPS did is remove the option to skip a grade (or more) in math in grades K-3. Which I, personally, fully support.

What's more, from what my child told me, the math questions were not questions you can "prep" for, or questions you will do better on if you skip a grade in math. They were questions that required good number sense and a thorough understanding of grade-level math processes -- exactly the things that Curriculum 2.0 math is supposed to promote.

And finally, empirically it seems that there are informal opportunities for advancement even after the decision in third grade. It's not a case of getting into compacted math in third grade or being doomed to the on-grade-level track through 12th grade no matter what. What's more, even if it were, the on-grade-level track you'd be supposedly doomed to would get you to AP calculus in 12th grade, which was (and still is) the HONORS track in the well-regarded, university-town public school system I grew up in.[/quote]

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