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[quote=Anonymous]For anyone who wants to actually compare the standards of learning from 2016 to 2023 for grade 3 and grade 4 math (which in the past AAP kids would get half way through), here:

2016: https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/mathematics/instruction (look at the tracking logs for the grades to get the standards)

2023: https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/mathematics/standards-of-learning-for-mathematics

It does seem that VDOE lowered the standards between them - for example addition and subtraction problems in 3rd grade used to go up to 9,999 and now go up to a mere 1,000 (!). Multiplication facts were to be automatic through the 12 times table and now only have to go to the 10 times table. In 4th grade they used to be doing fraction math with like and unlike denominators and now it's just like denominators and they've limited the denominators to "easier" ones (no 7, no 9).

[b]That said[/b] if you look at the grade 3 advanced math standards, it's tough to tell if they are getting through half of the new 4th grade math standards. As a PP mentioned the old grade 3 advanced math did fraction math. The new does not. Fraction math might be easier in the new VDOE grade 4 standards, but it's not just gone from them. 3rd grade AAP math used to do division with remainders, but it's not listed in the new standards. Addition and subtraction with decimals to the thousandths are still in the grade 4 standards, were in the old grade 3 advanced math standards, and decimals are nowhere in the new grade 3 advanced math standards.

So while the VDOE changes definitely happened I'd say they were minor compared to the FCPS advanced math changes.[/quote]

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