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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a drama llama.

I work in a E3 school. The kids who need it will get advanced math in 5th and take the 6th grade SOL like normal.

If anything, according to our Math Coach, we are on track for MORE kids to take advanced math based on last year's SOL performance and i-ready performance.

I teach 5th grade (and also teach advanced math).[/quote]

So they aren’t taking acceleration away. 👍[/quote]

We're at an E3 pilot (our student is in 5th this year) and the sad truth is that E3 did not prepare him or his fellow students for 5th grade accelerated math. They are having a lot of trouble getting them up to speed for the 6th grade SOL. So while I'm not opposed at all to doing away with tracking in 3rd and 4th (which E3 does), then they need to have a better plan for these E3 kids in 5th grade, because right now none of them are where they should be to take Algebra in 8th. They have to skip ahead somewhere or else they have to continue the compacted/accelerated E3 curriculum for all through 5th-7th too. Right now, this pilot just takes away the skills they would have learned in advanced math in 3rd and 4th and assumes the "advance math" kids will be fine to do 6th grade math as 5th graders. It's not working. [/quote]
Well there is a good graphic that describes this. See there are some people watching a baseball game and they all have boxes but one guy doesn't have sufficient boxes to see over the fence, so they take one box from the tall guy who can already see over the fence and give it to this other guy so he can see the baseball game too.

This right here is when the teacher takes away acceleration and gives more attention to another group of students, so they can see the baseball game. Now everyone can see the Algebra 1 in 8th grade. If you want to sit closer, your privilege can be used but it will not be supported by the school. I think there is picture for this somewhere.[/quote]

But my point was that E3 math is NOT preparing kids for Algebra 1 in 8th grade. The current FCPS standard track is Math 8, which is pre-algebra, and Algebra 1 in 9th grade. If they want to have Algebra 1 honors in 8th grade then they have to skip somewhere. E3 takes the skip away from 3rd and 4th grade. So where will the jump happen? [/quote]

Later, like in many other schools. [/quote]
But the aims of E3 are to expose gened students to slight advanced and accelerated content in order to increase the likelihood of algebra I in 8th.

Unfortunately they are removing even greater advanced and acceleration content that would normally be taught in the traditional advanced math blocks. [b]This change decreases the likelihood that those kids will take algebra I in 7th[/b].

Why wouldn’t they just keep advanced math and increase the content in genes math to allow both groups to be advanced appropriately? [/quote]

Not the kids who are truly advanced. [/quote]
Yeah some kids will succeed in spite of these changes.

But still doesn’t answer why they would remove advanced math in E3 unless they want to artificially decelerate some students.[/quote]

It’s unnecessary in those early grades. [/quote]

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