Anonymous
Post 09/02/2022 18:55     Subject: Re:skipping two levels in math?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My neighbor pushed her kid into algebra in 6th grade. Lots of tutoring and discussions with the school months in advance. Kid placed into it though and did well. Attempted geometry over the summer before 7th grade and did horribly. Kid needed to retake geometry in 7th, and that ended the parents pushing the kid ahead. The mom tells me she now regrets what they did in 6th.


Why did they do this in the first place?

I keep telling you guys this there is 0 point


There is a point for some highly gifted children. You're just unwilling to see it since you don't have children who would benefit. There's also a point in learning proper grammar, but you apparently don't see that either.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2022 18:00     Subject: Re:skipping two levels in math?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My neighbor pushed her kid into algebra in 6th grade. Lots of tutoring and discussions with the school months in advance. Kid placed into it though and did well. Attempted geometry over the summer before 7th grade and did horribly. Kid needed to retake geometry in 7th, and that ended the parents pushing the kid ahead. The mom tells me she now regrets what they did in 6th.


Why did they do this in the first place?

I keep telling you guys this there is 0 point


Agree. People won’t listen.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2022 11:02     Subject: Re:skipping two levels in math?

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor pushed her kid into algebra in 6th grade. Lots of tutoring and discussions with the school months in advance. Kid placed into it though and did well. Attempted geometry over the summer before 7th grade and did horribly. Kid needed to retake geometry in 7th, and that ended the parents pushing the kid ahead. The mom tells me she now regrets what they did in 6th.


Why did they do this in the first place?

I keep telling you guys this there is 0 point
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2022 07:38     Subject: Re:skipping two levels in math?

My neighbor pushed her kid into algebra in 6th grade. Lots of tutoring and discussions with the school months in advance. Kid placed into it though and did well. Attempted geometry over the summer before 7th grade and did horribly. Kid needed to retake geometry in 7th, and that ended the parents pushing the kid ahead. The mom tells me she now regrets what they did in 6th.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2022 23:04     Subject: Re:skipping two levels in math?

Our AART is only good at discouraging kids from succeeding. Unfortunately, she stops any possibility to do something like this.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2022 22:49     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

Level IV AAP math teaches 3rd and 4th grade math at an accelerated rate in grade 3. Some FCPS schools don’t offer advanced math until 5th grade. Those kids do skip 5th grade math. They take a couple of placement tests and use previous year’s SOLs and teacher recommendations to make the placement.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2022 22:45     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

My DC skipped a grade in early elementary in FCPS. I have heard it is rare, and typically 1st grade, but it does happen.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2022 20:16     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s daughter did this. The parents were not involved. She essentially never got anything wrong in math, including perfect scores on the SOL. She has no outside enrichment.

The SOL and in class work is a very low bar. Getting everything correct speaks more to exceptional executive function than exceptional math aptitude.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2022 16:23     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

My friend’s daughter did this. The parents were not involved. She essentially never got anything wrong in math, including perfect scores on the SOL. She has no outside enrichment.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2022 10:05     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know that AAP students skip one level of math. But has anyone heard of an elementary student skipping two levels of math? For example, a fourth grader who is in an fifth grade Advanced math class and thus is taking sixth grade math. DC says there is a student who is from a lower grade level that attends DC's AAP class for math. I thought grade-skipping was not allowed in FCPS, so I wonder if this an ad hoc case or a 2e case or something else. The school certainly doesn't advertise this pathway as a possibility.

Thanks.

My kid had a 4th grader in her 6th grade AAP math class.


OP - Thanks - so it sounds like FCPS definitely allows kids to skip math levels. I wonder if that's parent-driven or school driven. I assumed that the AAP track was the most advanced track available until middle school, but it looks like I'm mistaken. I also don't want to rock the boat (e.g. be one of those parents who yell at the AART for not recognizing their DC's abilities).

If you look at the Virginia team for 2019 Mathcounts: https://www.mathcounts.org/sites/default/files/2019%20National%20Competitors_2.pdf

you can see that there's an FCPS elementary school student on there. I wonder if Westbriar Elementary facilitated that student's math education, or if he had to to sit through math classes that were certainly covering concepts he already knew.

Thanks,


To skip levels it requires some ability but mostly parental push.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2022 15:54     Subject: Re:skipping two levels in math?

My DS took algebra in 6th. It was school driven in his case.

Some kids do sit through classes that cover material they already know but that particular may be in Geometry as a 6th grader.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2022 15:17     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know that AAP students skip one level of math. But has anyone heard of an elementary student skipping two levels of math? For example, a fourth grader who is in an fifth grade Advanced math class and thus is taking sixth grade math. DC says there is a student who is from a lower grade level that attends DC's AAP class for math. I thought grade-skipping was not allowed in FCPS, so I wonder if this an ad hoc case or a 2e case or something else. The school certainly doesn't advertise this pathway as a possibility.

Thanks.

My kid had a 4th grader in her 6th grade AAP math class.


OP - Thanks - so it sounds like FCPS definitely allows kids to skip math levels. I wonder if that's parent-driven or school driven. I assumed that the AAP track was the most advanced track available until middle school, but it looks like I'm mistaken. I also don't want to rock the boat (e.g. be one of those parents who yell at the AART for not recognizing their DC's abilities).

If you look at the Virginia team for 2019 Mathcounts: https://www.mathcounts.org/sites/default/files/2019%20National%20Competitors_2.pdf

you can see that there's an FCPS elementary school student on there. I wonder if Westbriar Elementary facilitated that student's math education, or if he had to to sit through math classes that were certainly covering concepts he already knew.

Thanks,
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2022 15:01     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

Anonymous wrote:I know that AAP students skip one level of math. But has anyone heard of an elementary student skipping two levels of math? For example, a fourth grader who is in an fifth grade Advanced math class and thus is taking sixth grade math. DC says there is a student who is from a lower grade level that attends DC's AAP class for math. I thought grade-skipping was not allowed in FCPS, so I wonder if this an ad hoc case or a 2e case or something else. The school certainly doesn't advertise this pathway as a possibility.

Thanks.

My kid had a 4th grader in her 6th grade AAP math class.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2022 14:57     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

No one skips any levels of math. They just get through the material quicker. And yes, some students in AAP are two grades ahead. Some kids are taking algebra in 6th grade.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2022 14:36     Subject: skipping two levels in math?

I know that AAP students skip one level of math. But has anyone heard of an elementary student skipping two levels of math? For example, a fourth grader who is in an fifth grade Advanced math class and thus is taking sixth grade math. DC says there is a student who is from a lower grade level that attends DC's AAP class for math. I thought grade-skipping was not allowed in FCPS, so I wonder if this an ad hoc case or a 2e case or something else. The school certainly doesn't advertise this pathway as a possibility.

Thanks.