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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry I have a typo. Teachers have not rejected it- we would be happy to have a useful curriculum. But APS does not follow the sequence of envision, and it is common core not SOL. For example (this is just an example I don’t have curriculum docs in front of me) they have students learning prime and composite numbers in unit 1. Then next is decimal computation. On the decimal computation pages, they mix in prime and composite questions but in APS we learn decimal computation first and prime and composite much later so students can’t do those questions since they have not learned those concepts yet. And it continues to build with each concept that is out of APS sequence. Common core and SOL are actually quite different so there are also concepts we don’t teach in 5th such as exponents.

FCPS has an SOL aligned math curriculum so I’m not sure why APS didn’t select one. APS does not give teachers practice pages for each lesson for students. They give us quick checks to assess, often with just 2-3 questions which are difficult to use for an evaluative grade with so few opportunities, and no answer key so when there are weird questions we can’t determine what they meant to ask since no answer key. So teachers at all 20+ schools spend hours reinventing the wheel and making up practice pages on our own. A total waste of time.  CKLA is not perfect but it’s a complete curriculum that we can follow and use. We supplement but it’s a whole curriculum.[/quote]

Do you use IXL for instruction? 
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