accelerated math

[jd7a]

I'm not sure how I feel about this, except that it's crazy that kids are being tracked and accelerated starting in Kindergarten.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303438.html

Comments

[demonlurking]

i have to admit, having had a faster math track might have helped me in college. i didn't have enough calculus in HS to do well in other related classes like physics. and in my school, i was following an accelerated math track, but that gave us pre-calc in senior year.

[red_haired_girl]

I knew a surprising number of kids who "failed" Kindergarten. I wonder if, after proving themselves the second time around, they get different treatment.

[wanderingpixie]

Interesting...

I had no idea that my hometown was kind of advanced for its era. When I was in scool, something like 1/3 of the students got Algebra 1 in 8th grade and then Algebra 2 in 9th.