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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD's second grade class is already broken into three different math groups. They rotate through independent work, math games and small group instruction with the teacher. They do differentiated work. For example, on the same game, one group was working on tens and ones, another group hundreds, tens and ones, and the third group thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.
Are others not getting differentiated math work?[/quote]

In our school, yes, there are smaller ability-based groups for math. However, the highest level math group still has to do the on-grade math just like the lowest level group does.  They may move faster, but then they just get a few more problems to work through...but they don't get to work on the next level concept until the entire class is ready to move on.  In my opinion, this makes the small-group-differentiation virtually meaningless.

Reading these posts makes me so concerned.  What I see is a new system for the sake of a new system -- it isn't well thought out, it isn't really ready to be rolled out and the teachers don't all understand (and can't adequately explain) the grading system.  Hard to see it as anything other that a new scheme to make everyone "equal" by eliminating pathways to excel.  Imagine how kids in MCPS could have benefited if the system focused on raising the level of the kids who are struggling.  This just makes everyone look the same on paper so that the county can feel equitable.  This hurts kids at the top and bottom of the spectrum in MCPS. What a shame.[/quote]

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