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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone care to comment on this?  Is AAP actually challenging at your school, or is it only slightly advanced?  [/quote]

The material is not exactly advanced.  However, the way the kids are expected to think about the material, is.  According to DD's teachers, the biggest issue the kids in class have is that they are asked to think in meaningful ways about what they're doing, and they're so used to 'This is the way it is', that they have trouble with it.  For example, the question could be 'What is 4+4?' (not that hard, right?)  'Explain your answer' (to which, the kids are going, 'What do you mean?  What's to explain, because 4+4 is 8').  That's the hard part, not going through the mechanics of something, but why are things the way they are.  There is a lot of explaining how they got to the answer, why, what is the relationship between this or that, which quite honestly, I was never taught back in the stone age, and wish had been taught that way.[/quote]

DP. I'm not sure that's any different than gen ed.

My gifted-by-Cogat-but-has-never-taken-the-WISC 3rd grader is engaged.  He wasn't in 2nd grade so I'm happy.  We're only 1.5 quarters into AAP so I can't really judge the program but so far I have no complaints about it being "watered down".  [/quote]

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