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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The HGC curriculum doesn't include math.   [/quote]

It's interesting you say that.  At my childs HGC, the kids were split into two math classes.  The "lower" class was accelerated a year, and took a class that covered both 5th and 6th in one year.  The "upper" math class was accelerated two years and took a class that covered 6th and 7th in one year.  In 5th now, the one class is taking 7th grade math and the other class is taking 8th grade math.  Now the HGC might not [i]officially[/i] cover math, but it's pretty clear that these kids were doing a vastly different curriculum than the normal school.  Of course, this was before the 2.0 changes.  I'd be interested in seeing how they're handling the 4th grade this year.[/quote]

The HGC curriculum doesn't (and didn't) include math because the HGC kids were taking the same math as everybody else -- just not on the same schedule. For example, before 2.0, a fourth-grader at HGC might have taken Math 6, but it was the same Math 6. So, accelerated, yes; different curriculum, no.

Now the HGC kids in fourth grade are taking either Math 4 or Math 4/5, just like all the other fourth-graders. (The HGC kids in fifth grade are not on the 2.0 schedule, at least not at my HGC.) I assume that they will get enrichment, but non-HGC kids are also supposed to get enrichment as part of in-class differentiation.[/quote]

OK, gotcha.  So the core curriculum is the same, albeit 2-3 year accelerated.  The extra math they did like math olympiads were enrichment.[/quote]

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