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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't there a fair bit of geometry on the SAT? It seems like a bad idea to remove geometry content from the curriculum for students planning to take the SAT...[/quote]

I think it’ll be fine for SATs - the parts they slimmed down are more for  Calc kids who will be doing proofs etc. But hopefully MCPS beefs up Precalc.[/quote]

Maryland's verion of IA also appears to skimp on proofs, trig and prob/stats to pare down enough to do the rest in 2 years at standard pacing.  Trig may not have much real-life applicability for many, but proofs/logic and prob/stats are really useful life tools.

The non-calc path kids probably can pick up some of the stats bit in later years, but it might still leave out logic/proofs, and the stats employed for the two non-stats-specific paths, there, might well leave out the probability theory behind stats that helps support associated critical thinking for that reasoning/analysis they'd be learning.

For calc path kids, and we know that nearly all of the higher-end-college-aspiring folk will be pushing their kids that way (in addition to those choosing it because they truly are interested in STEM), re-integrating all of that in a precalc class will be overly burdensome.  Leaving it to the APs would be detrimental, as well.  MCPS doesn't seem to have an answer, here, except to let enough kids fail to handle it well in the first couple of post-IA years, say, "I told you so -- you should have chosen one of the other pathways," and expect future cohorts to be dissuaded by that experience.

Glass half-empty view here, to be sure.  But these, along with what-do-I-do-(at any/all high schools, not just the privileged)-with-my-two-years-after-calc should be things MCPS is addressing fully and with clarity before jumping in.[/quote]

MCPS is depending on the calc kids supplementing, which many will. [/quote]

That's a great way to increase the equity divide.  SMH...[/quote]

You can get tutors cheaply online but they need to use textbooks and fix all the math curriculum and not just leave it up to the teachers.  [/quote]

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