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[quote=Anonymous]Okay y’all, I’m a 5th grade center teacher.  Here’s what I know. Fair warning— I don’t know anything about E3. My school doesn’t use it, and no one I know teaches at a school that uses it.

A number crunching 3rd grade teacher friend of mine figured out the following comparing old to new scope and sequence for 3rd grade advanced.

Old: 3rd advanced covered 3rd grade standards and about 80 percent of the 4th grade standards. 
New: 3rd advanced covers 3rd grade standards and about 50% of the 4th grade standards through the extensions. 3rd advanced is on the same general sequence as 3rd regular, but they have different tests.

Next year, 4th advanced will be responsible for teaching the rest of the 4th grade standards and the 5th grade standards. They’re going to tweak the pacing so that, like 3rd grade this year, Gen Ed and advanced will have the same general sequence of topics.

I have been told by people at the AAP office that  there are no plans to change 5th or 6th, because they’ll still be taking the SOL a year up.

What I think will happen: the 4th grade advanced math teachers are going to have a big adjustment next year with the added material that 3rd advanced used to teach. Topics will fall through the cracks, and 5th advanced is going to have to pick up the slack to get everybody caught up and ready for the 6th grade SOL.

Why did they do this? This is what I’ve been told. YMMV. 
1) They wanted the advanced math teachers to plan with Gen Ed and have the Gen Ed kids get more of the advanced topics. This hasn’t actually worked for anyone I’ve spoken to. I don’t think it’ll happen for 4th either. 
2) Kids who join advanced math after 3rd grade DO currently have an uphill battle. Spreading the 4th grade topics between 3rd adv and 4th adv more evenly means that kids who join advanced math in 4th are at less of a disadvantage.

Basically, they want more kids to be able to do advanced math, whether from more kids qualifying for the advanced math class in 4th or from the advanced teachers sharing planning with Gen Ed. Will this be effective is the question.

But it IS going to be easier for a kid who was not in 3rd advanced math to jump into 4th advanced and not be as behind. 
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