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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My guess is that if they did a broader study across all in state CA students comparing public schools that used Integrated Math versus ones that dropped it and do Algebra / Geometry/ Trig / separately they would find lower scores across low income groups in IM.

We moved to CA from MCPS. The elementary school math was fine , no Curriculum 2.0 thank god. Actual tests, textbook, real math, homework graded and a nice option was that if you finished the in class work really fast you could do challenge questions in a group with other kids. It fell apart in middle school and high school. Integrated math is truly the Frankenstein creation of people who don’t understand math. The textbook is hilariously bad. It’s all questions that make no sense unless you’ve learned math somewhere else. It’s not accelerated, it’s two years behind MCPS. Homework was never graded, just stamped on a separate page. Tests and quizzes were always group based. DD who had done Algebra in MCPS was super popular because she quickly did the answers while others were clueless. The only kids that learned any math were the kids whose parents had them doing UC Scout, Khan, Russian Math etc. This continued into high school. AP Calculus classes are solely made up of kids who learn math outside of school. IM leaves way too many gaps.

[b]This gets masked in wealthy areas where parents realize how bad it is and just make their kids learn math outside the school. [/quote][/b]

In most parts of CA the wealthy just send their kids to private schools.[/quote]

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