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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids who are in super advanced math can’t actually do it. They are being propped up by parents or tutors. [/quote]It’s so sad.  They don’t know how to read a math text.  They forget basic things like how to find a range or what it represents.  They can’t remember natural logarithms.   They don’t know how to study on their own for a test.  Fewer are even taking notes.  —college professor[/quote]

This is how schools teach now.  It's not the students.  [/quote]

In Alg 2 honors, the school expects solid mastery of basics and doesn't teach. The kid has to know her own gaps. If she doesn't, hard to fix. In the reg class (at least at our school), they walk through everything. In our case, Alg 1 during COVID, so who knew the gaps. I so wish I had pulled my kid from honors. The teacher "encouraged" a bunch of kids to move in mid-October, and our kid wasn't in that group so she powered through. In the end, she got a mediocre grade (and the grade bump doesn't make up for it) and wishes that she never took it. On the flip side, pre-calc is "easy" (so far) as she feels she is being spoonfed and, thankfully, she still loves math. [/quote]

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