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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TPMS non magnet students get double the math of regular MS kids? They have math 5 days a week and each one of those sessions is a double block?[/quote]

Yes.[/quote]

Actually, I have no idea what kids at other middle schools get. But yes, the non magnet students at TPMS get double the math instruction that magnet kids. There are 8 classes and for non  magnet kids, two of them are math. For magnet kids one is math and one is computer science. It’s amazing to me that this is such a difficult concept to grasp. I explained it clearly the first time but it’s as if some of you just don’t want to believe it and want to insist it must be some mistake of the A/B split schedule.[/quote]

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What caused the confusion was this post (01/30/2022 20:21):

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was never common even before the lottery.

None of you actually seem to have a child at TPMS because there are still only a very small number of kids in this situation and they come from all over. I do think there's a child from Frost but most of the rest are not from Ws. Many of the kids who were accelerated when they used the Cogat were not getting offers from TPMS anyway. Once your child goes to Blair it won't matter anyway. The most advanced kids take a special class in 9th/10th and often kids go "backwards" in order to take it. Backwards is really the wrong term but I can't think of a better one but the kids who skipped a year end up in the same class as the ones who did not. You can't predict who does well in that class based on their previous math path either.[/quote]

Not really. TPMS outright refuses to let anyone take Algebra in 6th unless they took AIM in 5th and the kids that meet that criteria don't come from all over but one or two specific schools that allow this. However, MS's like Frost however allow anyone who scores over 250 on their map-m to take Algebra in 6th at least I've read this here. My children went through TPMS.[/quote]

It sounds like the advantage to TPMS isn't really a huge advantage for some math kids then.[/quote]

[b]Except the TPMS kids get to accelerate through their math classes as they only have math every other day. They are literally getting through the curriculum in 50 percent of the time of the other kids who have math every day.[/b] The other 50 percent of the time they are taking Magnet computer science.[/quote]

It was your original post that was the cause of confusion - especially the portion bolded above. Do you know who has "math every day" ? Students at Wood MS or Eastern MS or NBMS or Sligo, etc., pretty much most of the MCPS middle schools that are not on block schedule. They all spend a similar amount of time on math instruction as TPMS. (And the other schools that have block scheduling such as the three MSMC schools and SSIMS all also allow students to do eight courses, meaning they would do math every other day like TPMS magnet.)

Your knowledge was limited to TPMS magnet and TPMS nonmagnet, and you generalized based on that. Unfortunately for you, TPMS nonmagnet math turned out to be an outlier.

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Oops - I meant to say "They all spend a similar amount of time on math instruction as TPMS magnet."[/quote]

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