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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a parent who is very much involved in my kids school on many levels. My son was reading news papers and chapter books while in Kindergarten and is looking to create his first video game by the start of 2nd grade LoL.

I actually do like the Curriculum 2.0 and here is why?

The focus is to encourage students to be able to THINK critically – not simply regurgitate the thoughts of others. [b]Instead of teaching children to make good decisions by telling them what to do, they are taught to make good decisions by giving them decisions to make; teachers are no longer teaching but facilitating.

Also students are introduced to advanced concepts earlier the before; so basically a kindergartener is introduced to concepts from 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade and then reinforced, revisited and expanded upon again and again for the next few years.[/b][/quote]

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This might work with other subjects, but it makes no sense whatsoever when teaching math. The previous curriculum already has too much of this -- jumping around from one topic to the next, a "spiral" curriculum. In math, every topic builds on the previous one. Multiplication follows from addition as fractions follow from multiplication, etc. By jumping around you are interfering with the kid's ability to learn the material and more importantly to grasp the logical beauty that is math. And then you have a whole generation of kids who think that math is boring and pointless and hard. [/quote]

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