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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, I am the PP. MCPS may not be full on inquiry-based as you described. But read this

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/math/middle/math6/

Does not sound like investigation math to you? [/quote]

Again, I'm not talking about the words they use. I'm talking about what they actually do. And, as it happens, child #1 is just finishing Math 6, so I'm familiar what they actually do, at least in one Math 6 in MCPS. Namely:  NOT investigation math.

Keep in mind, also, that this is the old math curriculum. (I.e., this is the one lots of DCUM posters are nostalgic for the good old days of, compared to the nefarious dumbing-down of Curriculum 2.0.)

Here are the new curriculum (2.0) math goals for first grade:

GOALS: Students will develop the knowledge and skills essential to achieving mathematical proficiency by—
• developing both conceptual understanding and procedural fluency;
• thinking and reasoning mathematically; and
• using mathematics to solve problems in authentic contexts.

And here is what they're supposed to learn in the first quarter of first grade:

• Math routines
• Counting to 120, starting at any number less than 120
• Place Value: tens and ones
• Comparison: 2-digit numbers
• Ten more, ten less
• Part-whole concepts (1-digit numbers): decomposing
• Addition and subtraction situations for 1-digit numbers
• Categorical data: bar graphs, pictographs

You will probably think, again, that the goals sound like reform math. And again I will say that, at least in one first-grade classroom in MCPS, what they actually did was not investigation math.[/quote]

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