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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live on the west coast in an area that is quite Asian (I am also Asian) and parents are intense about school and math. Nevertheless, our 50% Asian private school sucks at teaching math.

We have ~40 kids per grade. It’s just not enough kids to have good math until middle school, when math is leveled and improves in quality. We have some kind of weird curriculum that claims that heterogenous math groups are best for learning before 6th grade. The reality is that most private schools don’t have gifted pull-outs or leveled math groups, and all but the most talented teachers can’t teach to multiple levels at the same time. So one group in each room gets all the attention each year, and everyone else is on their own. One year my dC benefited from this arrangement because the math teacher really focused on their level, but most years DC ends up helping friends figure out the work.

80% of my child’s classmates have tutors this year. We don’t, but one of my DC’s classmates’ parents felt worried about my kid being at a disadvantage and so they copy all of the study guides from their tutor to give to our family.[/quote]

That seems odd. My kids are in a private K-8 with about 50 kids in each grade and they start levelled math in 2nd grade. There are 5 math classes per grade. I assume this is the same in most privates in DC.[/quote]

40 is our max and more common in 6th and up. For grades 1-4, we had closer to 30 kids per grade.

I think 50-60 is the minimum you need for multiple math levels.[/quote]

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