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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you aren't ready and don't have the foundation, math is just not something you can or should rush through.

I posted earlier about the differences in math SOL scores ate our center between the fifth graders taking the fifth grade math SOL and the ones taking the sixth grade math SOL.

There is a roughly 20 pt drop in fifth grade when the kids in accelerated math are removed from the scoring pool.

That is significant, and shows that the kids not in the advanced math are likely taking all the math they can handle, at a pace that they can more or less handle.

So no, 20:37, the non AAp kids who are not already taking the accelerated math absolutely cannot handle the pace of the AAP curriculum.

If they were scoring in the same upper 90% range on the fifth grade math that the AAP and advanced math kids were scoring on the 6th grade SOLs, then maaaybe you could make that argument. But that is not happening. When just those kids are scored separately they are scoring 20% lower in math than the advance math and AAP kids, and much lower than every other grade in the entire school.

Of all the parts of the AAP curriculum, the advanced math is one that should only be offered to the kids that completely show they have the skills and foundation to handle it.[/quote]

The problem is that the math education is generally lax until second grade and then gets suddenly accelerated from the 3rd grade for select students. If the schools had an appropriately higher pace of math education from the kindergarten days, keeping pace with the AAP math would likely not be an issue for most kids. This is also consistent with the OP's comment about raising the standard of GenEd, overall.

[b]On a related note, if the AAP curriculum really requires the ability to accept an accelerated pace of math (and other subjects?), then why not have a test that really tests the advanced math abilities as basis for selection?[/b] Let the kids take a test on one-grade-higher math and see how they do before placing them in the accelerated program.  This would be far better and relevant than tests such as NNAT and CogAT, which may or may not have any correlation to what's really required in the AAP. Indeed, this may be a better way to match kids for the AAP and reduce the rate of kids who end up in the AAP by virtue of their skills at CogAT and NNAT but find it difficult with the AAP pace.[/quote]

I have long advocated this suggestion.  As it is right now, many AAP kids are in the program, but have great difficulty with the math.  Which begs the question:  why are they in a full-time center or LLIV program in the first place, if they are not uniformly "advanced"?[/quote]

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