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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ has exceptional teachers in the math department. The narrative that they dont teach math is primarily led by parents who have kids in Curie classes where they learned a completely different approach.

That is why every year we have parents complaining that teachers are giving questions on exams that they did not teach in class.

If your child likes this kind of instruction TJ is the place to be. It results in a much deeper understanding of material.

It is a perfectly valid to question if such level of rigor is necessary in high school. But then why do you need TJ? You can go to base HS if this is not what you like.

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I posted earlier and my kid did not do any outside math prepping courses. She’s just always been really quick at math and gets it with very little practice needed after the concept was introduced. She’s had all As on report cards for math while at TJ.

But that doesn’t mean she is a future mathematician. I don’t understand the point for HS classes of not teaching kids directly HOW to do math and instead leaving them to just have to read the book and google on their own to figure out how to do the problems.

I do not see the lack of direct instruction in math by multiple math teachers at TJ as one of the pro’s of the school. [/quote]

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