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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in HS (mid 90’s) Calculus A/B in 12th grade WAS the advanced path.[/quote]

Calculus (only one level offered) was the advanced path when I was in HS in the 80s.  I think we had two sections at my middle school for Algebra and that was the top path, most of us then getting to Calc in 12th.  If you wanted to go beyond calc, you did it at the CC on your own time. My friend had done geometry in summer school so was the only person in the school to take calc in 11th and then did a Diff Eq class at the CC in 12th.

As long as they provide a path to calculus in HS, I may be OK with this.  I'm withholding judgement until I see the rest of their webinars. In general, I have no issue with working toward deeper understanding, number sense, more statistics and real world math application.  I am NOT ok with not providing real, challenging work for top math students.  My DS with ADHD had a lot of struggles in ES but was a superior math student and his pull-out math group was the highlight of his day. I don't want to think about how awful school would have been for him if on top of everything else math period became another time of boredom instead of the one thing that really engaged him.[/quote]

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