Thursday, March 12, 2009


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Monday, March 9, 2009

Accelerated Math 7
This week we are spending most of our class time preparing for the New York State grades 7 math assessments. I have already explained to my students that I have become very selfish with our class time and would prefer to spend it all preparing for their Math A Regents exam. The Regents exam is the goal of their accelerated program and will enable them to begin their high school work with a full year advantage over their classmates and leave the door open for pursuing calculus in high school. However, I have been able to find a number of questions on their assessment tests which make it a useful review for the Regents exams. Therefore, I have been spending class time on assessment questions that overlap their region's curriculum so my hope is they will be very successful on both.

Accelerated Math 8
This week we are spending most of our class time preparing for the New York State grades 8 math assessments. I have already explained to my students that I have become very selfish with our class time and would prefer to spend it all preparing for their Math A Regents exam. The Regents exam is the goal of their accelerated program and will enable them to begin their high school work with a full year advantage over their classmates and leave the door open for pursuing calculus in high school. However, I have been able to find a number of questions on their assessment tests which make it a useful review for the Regents exams. Therefore, I have been spending class time on assessment questions that overlap their region's curriculum so my hope is they will be very successful on both.