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What you wrote would track with the change in standards on the website and with what a (it is an anonymous online forum, so purported) 7th grade AAP teacher said on here. Everyone was saying it was E3 rolling out county-wide and that E3 still does accelerate later so kids are on track to take the grade 7 SOL in 6th.

But man it seems tough for those kids who were ready to finally not be bored in math![/quote]

This was such a helpful comment, thank you! I had not heard of E3 before, but after doing some research after reading your comment I think this answers my question. Looks like in 3rd and 4th grade they are no longer accelerating math for AAP (at any level, including full-time) and instead are meant to be "going deeper" (which honestly just looks like more worksheets, in our experience this year). In 5th grade they will presumably begin to accelerate with the goal of being ready for the 7th grade SOL by the end of 6th grade.

I assume this means that rather than doing 1.5 years of math each year from 3-6, as my eldest did for advanced math, my youngest will be doing 2 years of math in grades 5 and 6. At least, that's how it would presumably work to get them to the 7th grade SOL by the end of  6th.

Which I guess is fine, she will certainly be able handle a faster pace in a couple of years. I'm disappointed that she'll remain unchallenged in class for another year, though. We'll do what we can at home to supplement.

I'm wondering if this will have implications for getting into advanced math in 5th grade, even for level IV kids. I would assume that they would be monitoring progress and would hesitate to put a kid in an accelerated math pathway if said kid isn't thriving in math by then, even if they are level iv. Wonder if this will mean that level iv and advanced math become even more distinct in a year or so?[/quote]

PP here, and I do think the end goal (I literally talked to the FCPS math department person about this, so I do have some real info, but it was like 3 years ago) is to get more kids able to take advanced math. You're correct that not accelerating them so early gives them more time to identify and pull kids in.

That said a bunch of kids were added to advanced math when my current 7th grader was in 6th and I didn't hear from their parents - some of whom I was close to - that it was really that bad. I don't know if it impacted their chances of taking Algebra 1 H in 7th though because I never discussed placement with any of them.[/quote]

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