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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The math office wants to water down/eliminate advanced math at the elementary level. Having the same pacing in gen Ed and advanced (“Advanced for all”) in 3rd and 4th is a stepping stone to this.

[b]With the new standards, the percentage of 3rd grade kids in advanced math scoring pass advanced dropped significantly this spring. I expect the same to happen with 4th this year[/b]. Basically it’s suppressing the ceiling— one reason why the requirements to double accelerate have been SO insane until now. They haven’t wanted to exacerbate the gap between the gen Ed and advanced math students.

Algebra in 6th from Reid had dropped a bomb into this. I’m not a proponent of it being this widespread— half of the sixth advanced kids at my school qualified when maybe a fifth of them should have— but it’s encouraging that they aren’t going to be completely abandoning advanced math.

I think the haphazard rollout and overly generous selection process is intentional on the part of the math office. I think they want this to be a disaster so they can go back to the original plan. [/quote]

Did they change the 4th grade math standards last year as well? Or did this watered down rollout start with 3rd graders last yr. [/quote]

NP. They changed 4th grade standards for this year, or at least the pacing. I haven’t drilled down to see exactly what, if anything, is missing between the two but you can find the old pacing & standards on wayback website.

FWIW, my kid said the teacher told the class they will be doing 5th grade math this year. I'm curious if that is really the case or if she is unfamiliar that things have changed since last year. I'm leaning towards the latter as she is giving 12x12 multiplication table quizzes, but they only covered 10x10 last year so there is already a gap.  [/quote]

Pp here- for clarification my kid is in 4th grade. [/quote]

PP here again. I just went back to wayback machine and what is listed as "Grade 4 Advanced Math Curriculum" for last year appears to be identical to the current year "Grade 5 Math Curriculum". And none of that is what is showing for the current Grade 4 Advanced Math Curriculum. [/quote]

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