Anonymous wrote:My Deal 7th grader also placed into Algebra I but has yet to receive their new class assignment and is still stuck going to Math 7. Does anyone know when Deal students that need a schedule change will get their new class assignments or whom I should contact about this?

Anonymous wrote:BASIS DC teaches advanced integrated math.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the standards.

It's best to jump to Math 8 / 7A / 7H at school or home, and fill in gaps with material from earlier levels.

Math 1-8 is integrated math and then Algebra 1 and Geometry etc switch to stupid segregated math.

Read the standards and curricula

https://www.thecorestandards.org/Math/

http:/illustrativemathematics.org

http://khanacademy.org/

sorry can you explain integrated v segregated?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_mathematics

The elite private school programs teach integrated math. Mathematicians prefer it and practice it. The boundaries between subjects in math are artificial and interfere with understanding.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the standards.

It's best to jump to Math 8 / 7A / 7H at school or home, and fill in gaps with material from earlier levels.

Math 1-8 is integrated math and then Algebra 1 and Geometry etc switch to stupid segregated math.

Read the standards and curricula

https://www.thecorestandards.org/Math/

http:/illustrativemathematics.org

http://khanacademy.org/

sorry can you explain integrated v segregated?

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I agree. I would push on this and ask for a name in DCPS to reach out to if it can’t be resolved at the school level. It’s crazy that they’re making people choose between math and foreign language. It’s also bizarre that this kid was not identified for accelerated math in 6th grade so he could take math 8 during the summer; this is what most kids taking algebra 1 in 7th do. What changed between end of 6th and beginning of 7th?

There's supposedly a new thing (that I can't find anything about online) the DREAM initiative: DCPS Road to Equity and Achievement in Math - so scooping up kids who took math 7 in 6th grade but weren't part of summer acceleration. But sacrificing language is super crappy.

DCPS and their empty acronyms. Just tax dollars down the drain.

I want my tax dollars teaching kids algebra. It’s my dream.

The dream initiative is not actually going to teach kids algebra. It’s going to make them all take it by 8th grade. Which in my opinion is not a good idea and will make some kids accelerate too fast and not learn algebra.

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https://dcschools.info/p/dcps-will-make-accelerated-math-the

Shout out to "useful yet horrifying DCUM'.

At our MS (not Deal) they put all kids into “accelerated” Math 6 and from there decide who is going to do Algebra in 8th. So the default is just Math 6 “acceleration” not that everyone takes Algebra in 8th.

Anonymous wrote:Look at the standards.

It's best to jump to Math 8 / 7A / 7H at school or home, and fill in gaps with material from earlier levels.

Math 1-8 is integrated math and then Algebra 1 and Geometry etc switch to stupid segregated math.

Read the standards and curricula

https://www.thecorestandards.org/Math/

http:/illustrativemathematics.org

http://khanacademy.org/

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I agree. I would push on this and ask for a name in DCPS to reach out to if it can’t be resolved at the school level. It’s crazy that they’re making people choose between math and foreign language. It’s also bizarre that this kid was not identified for accelerated math in 6th grade so he could take math 8 during the summer; this is what most kids taking algebra 1 in 7th do. What changed between end of 6th and beginning of 7th?

There's supposedly a new thing (that I can't find anything about online) the DREAM initiative: DCPS Road to Equity and Achievement in Math - so scooping up kids who took math 7 in 6th grade but weren't part of summer acceleration. But sacrificing language is super crappy.

DCPS and their empty acronyms. Just tax dollars down the drain.

I want my tax dollars teaching kids algebra. It’s my dream.

The dream initiative is not actually going to teach kids algebra. It’s going to make them all take it by 8th grade. Which in my opinion is not a good idea and will make some kids accelerate too fast and not learn algebra.

Default, not all

https://dcschools.info/p/dcps-will-make-accelerated-math-the

Shout out to "useful yet horrifying DCUM'.

At our MS (not Deal) they put all kids into “accelerated” Math 6 and from there decide who is going to do Algebra in 8th. So the default is just Math 6 “acceleration” not that everyone takes Algebra in 8th.

This is exactly what almost everyone has been begging for for years. Accelerate instead of skip.
Give the kids a chance to learn more in class, review and extend each year, expose kids to math 8 before Algebra, and slow down for students who can't handle it.

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I agree. I would push on this and ask for a name in DCPS to reach out to if it can’t be resolved at the school level. It’s crazy that they’re making people choose between math and foreign language. It’s also bizarre that this kid was not identified for accelerated math in 6th grade so he could take math 8 during the summer; this is what most kids taking algebra 1 in 7th do. What changed between end of 6th and beginning of 7th?

There's supposedly a new thing (that I can't find anything about online) the DREAM initiative: DCPS Road to Equity and Achievement in Math - so scooping up kids who took math 7 in 6th grade but weren't part of summer acceleration. But sacrificing language is super crappy.

DCPS and their empty acronyms. Just tax dollars down the drain.

I want my tax dollars teaching kids algebra. It’s my dream.

The dream initiative is not actually going to teach kids algebra. It’s going to make them all take it by 8th grade. Which in my opinion is not a good idea and will make some kids accelerate too fast and not learn algebra.

Default, not all

https://dcschools.info/p/dcps-will-make-accelerated-math-the

Shout out to "useful yet horrifying DCUM'.

At our MS (not Deal) they put all kids into “accelerated” Math 6 and from there decide who is going to do Algebra in 8th. So the default is just Math 6 “acceleration” not that everyone takes Algebra in 8th.

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I agree. I would push on this and ask for a name in DCPS to reach out to if it can’t be resolved at the school level. It’s crazy that they’re making people choose between math and foreign language. It’s also bizarre that this kid was not identified for accelerated math in 6th grade so he could take math 8 during the summer; this is what most kids taking algebra 1 in 7th do. What changed between end of 6th and beginning of 7th?

There's supposedly a new thing (that I can't find anything about online) the DREAM initiative: DCPS Road to Equity and Achievement in Math - so scooping up kids who took math 7 in 6th grade but weren't part of summer acceleration. But sacrificing language is super crappy.

DCPS and their empty acronyms. Just tax dollars down the drain.

I want my tax dollars teaching kids algebra. It’s my dream.

The dream initiative is not actually going to teach kids algebra. It’s going to make them all take it by 8th grade. Which in my opinion is not a good idea and will make some kids accelerate too fast and not learn algebra.

Default, not all

https://dcschools.info/p/dcps-will-make-accelerated-math-the

Shout out to "useful yet horrifying DCUM'.