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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am beyond disgusted with this class.   DD, normally, a good student is totally lost.  Math isn't her thing, but with work, she can do it.    Material is just shoved at them before they have even had time to digest it.  She was recommended for Honors Geometry, but I think for the rest of her high school career, I am going to seek regular math.  She has had only 3 days to cover an ENORMOUS amount of material on "Construction"  No time to absorb one concept before rushing to the next.

I took Geometry.   I realize it isn't the same now as it was umpteen years ago, but these kids don't even have time to absorb one  concept before they rush off to the next.  Yesterday, she called me at work in tears.

This is teaching?  This is a 'good' school?

Give me a break.

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Honors math goes really quickly and the schools have a lot of leeway on how to implement the curriculum, which is why I think kids may have issues at one school but not the other. What's been helpful for my son who is in honors geometry this year is going over the classwork and homework everyday to make sure he understands it. That has helped us so far.

But, I do agree that you may want to reach out to the math resource teacher to ask about how they are teaching honors geometry and the pacing of the class. They may not be aware of this.[/quote]

Does he go over the math stuff on his own, or with your help? [/quote]

Right now, it's with my help. The geometry is actually pretty straightforward now and I can help him figure anything out he doesn't understand. We may get a tutor as the math gets more complicated (and beyond me!). But he's not having large scale trouble - it's more he misses a concept here and there because the class moves pretty quickly.[/quote]

That's what I've done, with my second DC in calc, I'm now back to speed on a lot of math that had been forgotten.  A good tutor could do the same, but so often all they need is one more voice attempting to clarify, and a few minutes here and there is sufficient.  I haven't seen any major errors, but on small things sometimes the classroom teacher is just wrong.  This curriculum isn't well supported, that's why the students are having trouble, but it also means the teachers don't always have the detail straight.  This isn't really an example but, I posted above confusion caused by the compass.  This is the compass they were using in class:

[img]https://www.learningresources.com/media/catalog/product/cache/5928e112830e542696586a0d661d5090/4/5/45701-bullseyecompass_pkg_sh-1.jpg[/img]

Usually a geometry teacher has to repeatedly point out that it's "straight edge and compass" and the straight edge is not ruler, but with this device it's also hard to think of drawing a circle as anything other than choosing the ruled radius.  Maybe the teacher explained it well in class, but this was exactly the hang up my DC was having when he was working at home.  I didn't remember specific constructions, but I still understood the constraint and so could get DC back on track.[/quote]

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