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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, there's fast-teaching and there's skipping concepts, both apply to compacted math.[/quote]

The spiral nature of the curriculum, even across the two vendors for 5/6, allows for minimal concept-skipping with the compaction, especially when viewed over the entire course of expected study prior to Algebra rather than viewed as a single year's content.  MCPS spent considerable effort (well, considerable in the realm of that afforded to curriculum, anyway) to make that happen, as the purchased curriculum didn't offer such elementary acceleration out of the box.

The concept gap [i]can[/i] happen more when moving from 5/6 in 5th to 7+ in 6th.  Some schools have taken measures to address that.  Parkland, for instance, has a rejiggered AIM based on the Illustrative Math AMP 7+ curriculum (instead of the old C 2.0 curriculum that left its own gaps with the newer IM Algebra course), but that additionally squeezes in the gap content back in and makes an attempt to "go deeper."  Their terming it "AIM," though, is something of a misnomer -- it's better than the C2.0 AIM, but some parents and staff cling to that name as if it is a gold standard.[/quote]

5/6 doesn’t use Illustrative math. It is all Eureka. [/quote]

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