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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/tj-math-students-note-lowering-of-standards/

The teachers said that the average score for their final exam for TJ Math 4 — equivalent to trigonometry — was “in the low 70s with a substantial minority scoring below 50%,” calling the results “the lowest scores we’ve ever seen,” even amid a “lowering of standards” at the school for the course.

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"The students in the spring semester course of Math 4, which the email is about, [b]include Class of 2024 students, the last class admitted through the merit-based admissions tests[/b] that the school board eliminated in December 2020, and students from the Class of 2025, admitted through the new race-based admissions process."

Asra pushing BS, as usual.

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Sure focus on the messenger, to distract from the message.  Asra Nomani, author's intro says she is an asian american TJ parent.  Racists like you target anyone asian american.

The TJ Math teacher is stating that standards have been lowered:

"The math teachers noted that the final exam was “substantially easier” than final exams given to previous classes. The teachers said the students had “unprecedented supports provided to you this semester, including extra practice quizzes, bonus quizzes, practice worksheets, and a practice final exam, all things that were not given to previous students.”

The teachers continued:

We expected to see scores rise, not drop, with our lowering of standards."
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The math test got eliminated from admissions. They don't know the middle-school readiness of the kids being admitted, and TJ Math teachers are left to deal with the problem. [/quote]

And it sounds like the TJ Math Teachers are not the best. The posts here and in other places make it sound like the math Teachers assume the kids are strong at math and require the students to teach themselves. That is the impression I have been left with. The kids are not given much in the way of in class explanation, they are given resources that they can look at one their own, and are left to ask questions if they can’t figure it out.

If that is the case, then it would work well for kids whose parents have been sending their kids to RSM or AoPS and who have been participating in math competitions and are quick to pick up material or are in supplemental classes that explain the material for them. That would be the same group of parents who could afford prep classes for the old Quant test as well as parents like me who have been sending their kid for outside math because in school math is slow. It would not work for kids who come from families who didn’t/don’t know about those resources and can’t afford those resources.

It could be that the math department needs to start teaching math with an understanding that 25% of their population is coming in totally unprepped (no RSM, AoPS, Math Counts at MS) and that they need to help firm up abilities. [/quote]

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