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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take this with a huge grain of salt because it hasn’t even fully started yet, I’m relying on the word of a 3rd grade boy, and my DS has a student teacher through December (along with the regular classroom teacher) so this may allow for things to be done differently than in the past. But there is advanced math at his LLIV school this year, we got the official email from the registrar that he was selected and we have a certain amount of time to opt out. His classroom teacher is the advanced math teacher. DS said that around ~10 kids, maybe a little less, leave for math - presumably these are the on grade level math kids - and that they would be getting additional students from other classes just for math.

No clue how other schools are doing it especially centers or if you have a well established LLIV program. Our school has a pretty new LLIV and not too many families elect to go to the center as it’s a much longer bus commute. [/quote]
This is pretty typical for smaller FCPS elementary schools.[/quote]

I’m interested to know what happens at larger and more established LLIV schools  and centers. I’ve seen what they’re doing in regular 3rd grade math so far and woof. It’s basically just counting using graphs. But not every kid needs the full AAP experience, plenty of kids need just advanced math. But it seems like at other schools only the full time AAP kids would get it.  [/quote]

My child is at a smaller center. There  are typically two AAP classes. One is a class of only level IV kids, and the other is a class of level IV, filled out with advanced math and/or level III kids from the base school essentially principal placed into the class based on the math placement exam taken spring of 2nd grade, plus other test scores. My child is in the second class, there have been no pull outs or push ins in the class so far according to them, though it's possible that sort of thing hasn't started up yet.

The homework my child has brought home is also graphing but instead of counting one by one, each ice cream cone represents 2,3,4, or 5 etc and then they have to do basic multiplication to figure out how many. [/quote]

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