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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain what's happening here?  What changes are being made to 4th grade math (and beyond?)[/quote]

There's a lot of stuff, but their proposal is basically that:

-They're going to add different 'pathways' (ie, math options) for students in grades 11 and 12. (Because, as others have pointed out, the general zeitgeist seems to be that kids in HS don't need calc, or at least, not all of them do.)

-They're getting rid of any honors math courses/accelerated options. Every student in K-10 will all be taught the same material at the same pace. Near as I can tell, this means students will all be working at the equivalent pace of taking Alg 1 in 9th. They claim this won't preclude students who want calc in HS from getting it, but I'm also not convinced that those students won't have to do summer school to get in all the prep classes.

-They're getting rid of Alg 1, Alg 2, and Geometry as we know them; they seem to want to take those topics (and everything beneath them) and chunk up/redistribute the contents of those courses throughout the K-10 material. I'm assuming the plan will be that all the same content will be covered, just in a different order, but that's not a given from what I've seen thus far.[/quote]

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