At a meeting introducing parents to the Investigations curriculum several years ago, the head of the district math department stated that it was dangerous to accelerate a child more than one year in math. He said that math would "fall apart" for them in college for they would lack true number sense if they didn't go through the spiraling curriculum that Investigations offered in elementary. He then went on to comment that they also would run out of things to do in high school. [Gag].
I am concerned that your principal seems to be seeing Common Core as a ceiling, rather than a floor. If your child already knows and understands the first grade content dictated by Common Core, what is the argument for making him repeat it?
