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[quote=Anonymous]14:50 PP again.  I'm not the "the more math the better" poster, but that poster has a point.  At my kids' AAP center, the station work ends up being a lot of kids just talking, playing card games, or playing around on the computer.  The teacher is busy with her small groups and doesn't notice or stop the playing around.  The kids probably end up with less than 2 hours of math instruction+ work per week, with the rest of their math time being glorified playtime.  I don't mind sending my kids to AoPS for 2 hours per week, because then they're at least getting a reasonable amount of math instruction per week.  If they actually received 5 quality hours of math class at school, I wouldn't send them to extracurricular math.

Also, most of the kids aren't fine with the math class structure.  Over half of the kids fail to meet the benchmark on IAAT, which is pretty pathetic.  A lot of the kids have significant gaps in their math understanding.  Most of the ones who don't are attending Mathnasium, kumon, RSM, or AoPS.[/quote]

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