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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enriched Math - very little homework  - just started doing projects.  Projects look interesting so far.  DC is engaged and enjoying it but still breezing through it (although not as much as he is breezing through non-enriched english and world studies, having missed the cut-off for world studies).  That doesn't seem to be the case for many of the kids judging from the offers of retakes of quizzes and my child's (admittedly spotty) reports.[/quote]

Can you give us some info about the projects? Thank you![/quote]

Ok - so a group project, and, admittedly, I haven't actually seen it - but it's buying a taco truck and figuring out what to sell, the prices, how to design it, etc.[/quote]

My kid recently did a sales campaign (design, ads, pricing/discounts to move product in different scenarios, taxes, etc) on a product the group picked based on research. [/quote]

That sounds like more fun than the worksheets in regular IM but not particularly enriching in terms of content.[/quote]

I would be sorely disappointed if this is what considered enrichment in middle school math. [/quote]

The unit is on proportional relationships and percentages, what would you suggest as a group project? The other poster mentioned a taco truck which also seems to be an appropriate project.

My kid also had individual challenge questions on the same topic. My kid is bored by worksheets so I think this is good project to apply mathematical concept to real world. [/quote]

Forget taco trucks (unless you want to eat them). Basically forget anything that tries too hard to make math "real world applicable", it will normally result in either making the math dull (e.g real world), or result in students wasting time not really doing much math (e.g spending time talking, drawing, measuring, etc. but not actually doing much conceptually). See my post just above yours for a list of great topics that would highly stimulating to advanced kids in middle school.[/quote]

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