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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Principal mentioned a new math pathway in email. DC is on compact math now. What’s the new pathway? Anyone heard of it?[/quote]

Not sure if you are in the same CES with me... We had a meeting with school principal this morning, indicating a faster accelerated pathway to skip the entire Gr4, and directly into Gr5/6 in the MP2 (next Monday). In this pathway, kids can finish Pre-Calculus in Gr9. We were told this is the first year that MCPS tries on this pathway for the most advanced ES math students, so everything about logistics and teacher resources are very uncertain...[/quote]

This sounds like what my grade 4 DS was just invited to join. He takes 5/6 math this year, and then Algebra 1 at our home middle school next year. Just wondering if anyone has additional information about transportation for the middle school class? We had just a few hours to decide whether to commmit to the program, and the principal wasn’t able to confirm all of the details before we had to make a decision. He thinks that we’re responsible for dropping DS at the middle school in the morning, but that MCPS will provide transportation back to the elementary school after math class is over. Does anyone know whether this is correct? [/quote]

That is strange - not only are the kids being accelerated, they are skipping IM too?! (The usual path is compact 5/6 -&gt; IM -&gt; Algebra 1 -&gt; ...)[/quote]

No, they are doing compact 5/6 at 4th grade, and IM at 5th grade, and presumably, Algebra 1 at 6th grade.[/quote]

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