Our district will be implementing Common Core for math starting next year. They're not giving up the Everyday Math curriculum or the Discovering Algebra/Geometry textbooks, though--just "modifying" them to fit with Common Core. Everyday Math has done plenty of damage, so I'm sure adding in Common Core standards won't make it any worse. I've found advanced kids on the middle school math team who can't manipulate fractions without their calculators. And as I mentioned in another thread, my dd is in a class with 9th & 10th graders who never learned (or don't remember) simple long division. The high schoolers are kids who were in 3rd & 4th grade when our district implemented the Everyday Math curriculum and the middle schoolers have had it their whole school career.
Currently at the middle school level, most kids take 6th grade math->Integrated Algebra A->Integrated Algebra B, with the option of repeating Algebra as a 9th grader or moving on to Geometry. Advanced students can skip 6th grade math, taking Geometry in 8th grade. Very advanced students can test out of Algebra A, ending up at the high school for Algebra II in 8th grade.
With the new common core, everyone will take 6th grade math, then choose at 7th grade to either take 7th & 8th grade common core, leading to Algebra I in 9th grade, or to take an accelerated 7th/8th/Algebra I path during 7th & 8th grade. They claim that students can still skip 6th grade math, though they're actively discouraging it. Those that skip will move to the accelerated path, taking Geometry in 8th grade. Very advanced students will still be allowed to test ahead. Ultimately, I believe Geometry will no longer be offered at the middle schools, because fewer and fewer kids will be on that path each year.
