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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be careful for what you wish for. Because then there are kids who were pushed through elementary math so fast (in the accelerated fashion) that basics don’t stick and they are not fully baked in math skills to be *strong* in middle school and high school.  With condensing and skipping a year of math, several students are ironically put at a disadvantage for later math.  —a high school math teacher [/quote]

This is an interesting comment to me.  I keep hearing that AAP math "skips a year ahead," yet my 3rd grader who just started AAP seems to be doing just barely anything different than what she did last year in (virtual) 2nd grade math. It doesn't seem like she skipped a grade, and she tells me "everyone in class gets the math b/c it's really easy."  Does it suddenly advance later on? Because as of now, we aren't seeing it.

*Note, this isn't me saying my child is a mathematical genius, I was actually worried about her being in AAP because her strengths are more verbal/linguistic than math.[/quote]

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