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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 5th grader who has been in Compact Math was recently recommended by her math teacher that she be placed in math 6.0 next year instead of IM. I was quite surprised as we never heard she was struggling and shes been getting all As in her report card plus Map scores have been great. Teacher said she thinks she would be better in the regular math as IM is very fast paced. Has anyone have had a similar experience? Just want to know if this is normal (for kids to move to math 6.0 after compact math in ES). I just want to make sure she's placed in the right class. I definitely don't want her to get bored considering a lot of the things they'll be going over next yr is a repeat of this year, no? [/quote]

My son, who is now a 9th grader was in compacted 5/6 and then went to IM. He and many of his friends who were also in compacted found IM to be easier than math in elementary school because they were moving at a slower pace, in that they were covering a year of material in one year, whereas compacted covered 1.5 years of material into one year.[/quote]

I thought IM was essentially Math 7 and Math 8 together. What we used to call Pre-Algebra. [/quote]

That's what it's supposed to be... [/quote]

Then shouldn't the pace be super fast given it is essentially 2 years of math squeezed into a 6th grade year??[/quote]

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