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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The decision made in 3 rd grade impacts your kids through high school with the new math tracking - so I would fight for getting my kids in the compact classes.   [/quote]

NP here.  My kid was in compacted Math 4/5 last year in HGC.

It was the biggest disappointment ever.  I do not care if my kid is accelerated or not, but I expect mastery of concepts at grade level.  The teaching was so damn spotty, the teachers so ill-prepared and clueless, the process, curriculum not at all transparent, that these kids learned NOTHING.  Now most of the HGC parents are taking outside help, not because these kids cannot handle the math that is being taught - but because we want them to actually ignore what is being taught and actually learn grade level Math of previous years.

Frankly - Math has been a pile of horse manure for the past year in HGC. I do not understand why you would fight tooth and nail to get your kids into the compacted Math? Sit with a textbook and teach them Math - and then also teach them to write BCR explaining the process of arriving at the solution - so that they can handle the MCPS requirements.

As it is US schools were lagging behind in Math - now they are even further behind. Reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy"!    [/quote]

My child is also in compacted math at an HGC.  I've heard that the CM is actually better at our home school.  People at the home school rave about the CM but I actually don't know what is being done differently (except that the class size is smaller).  [/quote]

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