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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a misunderstanding among nonSTEM educators and parents that acceleration in and of itself equals challenge.  The problem in APS is that they aren’t challenging the smart kids in math through depth and instead are just pushing them up/through material more quickly.  They could go more slowly with harder problems.  [/quote]
There is too much time spent on depth in the early part of elementary; they have gone overboard with multiple strategies for everything which can actually risk confusing and frustrating kids more than helping them. [/quote]
All the strategies are confusing.  Depth would be doing more problems like those used in Beast Academy that require kids to understand and apply math skills to solve complex problems, rather than only rotely working through repetitive problems (even with different strategies).

The other option is to have kids actually collect data/perform experiments and use math to answer questions.  Applying math to real life to build that understanding.

I do have limited sympathies for parents who go to great efforts to accelerate their kid in math, only then to complain their kid is bored.  It's ridiculous to pre-teach all the planned math content.  Use your time at home for other enrichment--music, language, art, coding, robotics, whatever.  (Cue all the parents swearing that their kid was born knowing advanced math and that they can't be at all responsible despite paying thousands of dollars for RSM and Beast Academy.)[/quote]

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