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[quote=pettifogger][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter's Alg 2 Honors teacher told the class it is the hardest math class they will take, especially for this year.  Because Alg 1 was right after Covid and then they had Geometry and now they are in high school and expectations and speed of the class are high.

I have no thought to pull her out of honors if needed but so far she is doing ok.  [b]She said the first week was stuff she never heard, but the last 2 days things were a little easier.  [/b]

What is this honors society tutoring?  Do I contact a counselor about this?[/quote]

Extremely unlikely. Much more likely is she forgot after 14 months of not doing algebra while going through the poorly structured geometry curriculum. [/quote]

I'm going to defend that first PP. I think her daughter is probably right that she has not seen certain types of problems before because if she is a 9th grader I think she might have done C2.0 which was terrible. While certain subjects may have been covered they were not covered well enough for kids to actually understand the material. [b]So when they get to Alg. 2 and start getting problems that deal with the same subject but are more complex and require 3-4 steps and not just 1-2 steps you might feel lost.[/b]

DD's math teacher also gave a bunch of "review" problems that were much harder than what she saw in Alg. 1. DD did cover exponents in Alg 1 but it was really basic [b]but the review problems had exponents of exponents involving multiple variables and to her that was "new."[/b][/quote]
Yes, this all too common and the root cause is a lack of problem solving in schools. At its core, problem solving means take something that a student does not know how to initially do, and via logic and reasoning break it down into things that are familiar. Students who are exposed to problem solving are able to do this reduction to known ideas often; the more problem solving they've practiced, the more easily they can recognize a problem as just a more complicated version of a previous problem, but having the same essential ideas. [/quote]

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