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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]M[b]arylands math course change is ridiculous. Yes they should have gone to integrated math. No they shouldn’t have shortened it by a year because all the things after actually are understood more when you have the full foundation. [/b]If they wanted to shave off half a year and introduce more financial and practical application of math with the integration, I could have supported that.

Whether every school should offer MBC is questionable, but this idea of bringing all the college level courses down to HS level is ridiculous.  Just do like other countries and be done with HS by 16 and then let students decide want to pursue for the 1-2extra years, be it vocational, exploratory or focused (that’s how the IB diploma actually works btw). Then teach those courses at the appropriate level.[/quote]

Completely agree. I think what will happen is that across MD kids on the calc track will really struggle, and then MD will change again and go to a three-year integrated math sequence, whih is what other states have. Or they will require districts to add a bridge class for the students on the calc track to take before pre-calc. But MCPS could get ahead of this. They could create that bridge class now, knowing that students already struggle with pre-calc with three years to prepare, and that they will struggle even more with two years--especially those who don't supplement. However, the math team in central office has not vision or leadership, so it is not going to happen until the state mandates it.[/quote]

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