Middle School Math is the Biggest Waste
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The worst part of K-12 math is sixth through eighth grade.
‘Cause kids learn arithmetic in elementary school and then spend three whole years spinning their wheels until they actually learn Algebra 1 in ninth grade.
So they finish arithmetic in elementary school, and then move on to algebra in high school.
What do they even do for those three years of middle school?
It’s just, it, it is such, such a waste to have them running in place for three years.
If you actually use those three years well, you teach efficiently, you require mastery, and then you move kids forward when they’re ready, honors students can be finishing all of high school math by the end of eighth grade.
And not even by doing extra math, just by not wasting three years.
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