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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our school they just renamed regular IM to this class.   Everyone that would have been IM is in this class instead.

In terms of long term this path gets kids to calculus in 11th grade.   Remains to be seen how that will all pan out.  From talking to some HS math teachers sounds like not well....   [/quote]

What do the HS math teachers you've talked to say?  Why not well?[/quote]

Caveat -- I'm not a teacher. But I think for the right kid who studies hard and has good teaching it's just fine. In 11th, the kid who doesn't love math as much can take AP Calc AB and then AP Stats the next year, or AP Calc BC if they want. The kid who wants the challenge can take AP Calc BC and then Multivariable Calculus. My kid did this track and has loved it. Although his two calculus classes taught by the same hardcore teacher have kicked his butt and he's gotten Bs for the first time ever in math class, that's a great thing IMO because I know he has to work hard and stay on top of the problem sets.

My kid got on the IM track in 6th grade after we moved to MoCo -- the placement test put him in Math 6, but he was bored to tears within a couple of weeks and we got him moved to IM. I think the flip side of potentially pushing kids too hard is placing them in classes that are too easy/too slow and risking boredom.

You know your kid best though.[/quote]

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