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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait what? "will be requiring [b]300 minutes of math a week [an hour a day][/b] in grades K-8 starting in 2027, [b]which is way more than middle schools offer currently[/b]"

Why aren't middle schools offering an hour a day of math? Students in middle school are there from 8:15-3:00. That is 6 hours and 45 minutes. Why can't math be an hour a day?

What also would be better would be to have actual math textbooks with WORKED EXAMPLES, direct instruction and workbooks like every other country that is highly ranked in math. [/quote]

Because to offer an hour a day of math in middle school, you would either need to have 6 60-minute periods a day (only 1 elective) or two math periods out of seven 45-ish minute periods a day (only 1 elective) and MCPS has (rightly in my view) decided not to do either.[/quote]

There are only 6 hrs 45 minutes in a middle school day, and once you account for lunch and passing periods, it's down to about 6 hours. So that means the rest could be 6 one-hour periods or 7 43-ish minute periods.

If it is 6 one-hour periods, kids can only take one elective (zero if they are at a school that requires foreign language.)  If it is seven 43 minute periods kids would need 7 periods to be spent on math per week to get to 300 minutes, so at most they could have 1 full elective plus a three-day-a-week elective (and that may be too complicated schedule-wise so it may just be 1 elective.)  [/quote]

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