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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son's MAP-M scores were very high. I can't remember the actual score from 5th but it was higher than many of the compacted math kids and I was told on par with the HGC. My son was in grade level math and my requests for change of class were denied repeatedly. Interestingly, they placed him into IM for 6th even though he didn't have compacted math. [/quote]

That's so weird, given that compacted math is supposed to be three years of math into two (math 4-5-6 taken in grades 4 and 5), and that IM is supposed to be the content of grades 7 and 8.[/quote]

That may be the way it is sold but it's not that cut and dry.  Math is taught as a spiral, hitting the same topics year after year slowly adding depth to each.  A top student in math 5 can easily know just as much as the typical student who's taken compacted 5 or the 8th grader in IM as a remedial course.  Anyway, there needs to be a correction at the transition to MS.  In ES the placements are restricted by the numbers.  No matter how many compacted math sections an ES carries the odds are the number or seats isn't a perfect match to students who qualify.  So there will be kids bumped up or down based on the numbers.  My DS is in 6th and was in compacted math but has friends who made the jump this year, so far without issue.[/quote]

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