Moving On Up At Grade Level in Math
With new curriculum, higher-level math won't necessarily mean skipping grades
It's an equation that many parents have long taken for granted in county schools: Accelerated mathematics equals grade skipping. As part of the school system's goals, students took so-called sixth-grade math in fifth grade on the way to Algebra I by eighth grade and advanced math such as Algebra II and calculus in high school. Now, school administrators say that they might have pushed some students too far too fast. "For some, we pushed them too hard," Superintendent Jerry D. Weast said during Tuesday's school board meeting. "For others, not hard enough. But it's always going to be that balance, that ying-yang that you figure out." County students would not need to skip grades in order to jump ahead in math under recommendations presented …
