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I currently teach at a very small public school - about 20 kids per grade. I'm so thrilled this year that we will be changing our math sequence for the students. I had a small group of students last year (4 sixth graders and 1 fifth grader) who were…
July 26
Our exceptional math 6th graders take PreAlg before school in 6th grade, then take Alg 1 as 7th graders and go to the high school for Honors Geometry in 8th. Other wise the track is like Cathy's school. All in all public school math instruction is a…
July 21
What math series do you currently use? We have switched to Connected Math and I am being told because of the way it is structured, there is only the option for 7th grade math and 8th grade math. I am curious especially to find others who are using t…
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Each of the junior highs in our district has around 220 students/grade. The students take a test in 6th grade for math placement. They are then divided by ability into math 7, prealgebra and algebra 1 classes. We are talking about eliminating algebr…
July 20
This was at a private school with only 16 kids per grade. At his previous public school, he had been allowed to do math on his own with the Singapore Primary Math series (which we provided), but he got no in-school instruction in math at his level.
July 13
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The school my son attended for 4th to 6th grade scheduled math class simultaneously in the entire school. Each year kids were given math placement tests and placed in the appropriate level math class (independent of what grade they were in). There w…
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I work for a small school district (4A high school). Our junior high has about 100 kids in each grade (7th/8th). We are doing some reorganizing for this fall and have had a lot of discussion about math grouping. As of now, the district is not wantin…
July 13

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Identification

One thing we haven't talked a lot about at KGTC is identification. I am very curious how other districts handle the identification process, especially STAT or SIT or whatever you call your intervention team. Please share.

Posted on October 9, 2007 at 7:04am — 3 Comments

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At 10:21pm on October 8, 2007, Ginger Lewman said…
Land of Oz? Is that Kansas or Australia, since they're both referred to as such! ;-)

Way to go at joining the tech tools and other groups! Hope to see some posts from you soon!
 
 

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