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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our school they just renamed regular IM to this class.   Everyone that would have been IM is in this class instead.

In terms of long term this path gets kids to calculus in 11th grade.   Remains to be seen how that will all pan out.  From talking to some HS math teachers sounds like not well....   [/quote]

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This is what happens at Pyle. There's no regular IM. It's just AIM. Class was not difficult for my non-math kid. It got harder in Algebra, Geometry and Algebra II [/quote]

MCPS is no longer offering IM as of next year. The three math pathways are:

Regular path (no compaction): 
math 6  - math 7- math 8

Advanced path (compacting 6-8-8 into two years): 
6+ - 7+ - alg

Extra advanced path (compacts 7-8 into one year - only for kids who have successfully completed math 6 in ES): 
AIM - alg 1 - hon geo

Kids in 7th grade no longer have the option to compact 7 and 8, as they did when IM was offered; only 6th graders can take AIM. They can take 7+, which compacts half of 7th and all of 8th into one year, if they took 6+, which compacts all of 6th and half of 7th into a year).
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But these paths force the already compacted kids from ES to speed up even more and I don’t understand why that’s necessary or thought to be beneficial?[/quote]

It's not about the system [i]forcing[/i] students to speed up.  It's an [i]option[/i] offered that can meet a child where they are at the moment.  If they only offer them content that is too easy for them to master or a pace that is too slow, the kids who need that stretch to stay engaged lose interst in the subject, which is the last thing we want (or among the last things).

If anyone is forcing students to speed up, it's parents who put kids who are not attuned to Math into outside enrichment.  Their reasons for doing so may include a greater liklihood of getting into lotteries for MCPS's somewhat-artificially scarce advanced programs (at least based on current criteria), but I wouldn't heavily classify that as MCPS forcing things.[/quote]

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