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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What many parents don't recognize is that there is a difference between being good at calculations due to memorization (of the multiplication table for instance) and understanding the core concepts of math. Just because your child can do one doesn't mean he knows the other. [/quote]

Some of the parents you may refer to are mathematicians, engineers and scientist (I am one of them)...and your point is curriculum 2.0 as presently taught to my little girl is good?  It is not.  It's a disaster.  The previous system where kids, with increasing fluency and mastery in the science, art and beauty of mathematics, could simply move along if competent and capable;  the older child did (up to 4 or 5 years ahead of the peer group).  He is not defective or deficient because of his acceleration.  His performance in and out of school continues to affirm this.  My daughter, on the other hand, who may have more potential in math (at least compared to her brother)...she is stuck in the curriculum 2.0 mud.  She is taught by her brother who has done a far better job than MCPS teachers -- so-called experts at differentiated teaching.

Curriculum 2.0 will prove a royal failure.  MCPS will bring back pathways when she comes to her senses about such a regressive and foolish "one size fits all" policy in our modern educational era.

The schools in MCPS have slowly lost ground (and leadership) over the last decade compared to other systems in the land.  The present implementation and execution Curriculum 2.0 will reinforce this slow decline.[/quote]

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