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[quote=Anonymous]I'm at an E3 pilot school and my current 5th grader participated in E3 math in 4th grade. I also have an older student who did the advanced math that most people are familiar with (compacted math in 4th grade, skipped to 6th grade math as a 5th grader and took the 6th grade SOL).

I was not impressed with E3 math at our school. We did have a math coach working with our 4th grade teachers, which I think helped a little. They would meet as a team to create each week's lessons and also the extensions that went along with each lesson for kids that needed it. They also did once-a-week math pull outs with the Level 3 AAP teachers, but unfortunately using that pull out for math skills meant they didn't get their normal level 3 curriculum.

My 4th grader bombed the 4th grade math SOL, as in he passed but barely. My understanding from other parents is that this happened for a lot of the "advanced math" kids. So now in 5th grade, they did leave the same group designated as "advanced" even though so many of them didn't seem to even learn the 4th grade material, let alone the 5th grade material. Their 5th grade teacher is trying to catch them up with both 5th grade and 6th grade material so that they can take the 6th grade SOL. I know she's an excellent math teacher so I'm hoping this will work.

I understand that E3 is supposed to leave the path open for more kids to be designated advanced in 5th grade by not teaching "advanced" kids separately in 3rd and 4th. But from what I experienced, it didn't work very well for anyone. 
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