I was *very* afraid that this program would be cut because it requires extra transportation to the high school, and to the college.
I think that since it really helps with testing results at the 7th, 8th and high school levels, it got to stay.
When I get students like you, I try very hard to challenge them. It's easier when all my kids are individualized as to what math they get.
I had a student this year who'd been in "remedial" math because, well, she was a "special" student, and that's where her district put "special" kids. When she got to me mid-year, she begged to be put into Algebra, because she was *sure* she could do it. So I put her in Algebra, thinking that nothing tried, nothing gained. She put her heart and soul into learning, and passed the Ohio Graduation Test in Mathematics with an "Advanced." Heh, heh.
It makes all the phone calls I had to make from my class to my mathmatical husband so I could explain concepts *I'd* never learned oh, so worthwhile.
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Date: 2009-05-29 10:08 pm (UTC)I think that since it really helps with testing results at the 7th, 8th and high school levels, it got to stay.
When I get students like you, I try very hard to challenge them. It's easier when all my kids are individualized as to what math they get.
I had a student this year who'd been in "remedial" math because, well, she was a "special" student, and that's where her district put "special" kids. When she got to me mid-year, she begged to be put into Algebra, because she was *sure* she could do it. So I put her in Algebra, thinking that nothing tried, nothing gained. She put her heart and soul into learning, and passed the Ohio Graduation Test in Mathematics with an "Advanced." Heh, heh.
It makes all the phone calls I had to make from my class to my mathmatical husband so I could explain concepts *I'd* never learned oh, so worthwhile.