Sixth graders taking math at Middle School
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Anonymous
| Trying to do some research - which elementary schools send advanced math 6th graders to MS for math class? Which MS do they go to? I know Haycock sends them Longfellow...any others? |
Anonymous
| White Oaks have sent a few to Lake Braddock. |
Anonymous
| Canterbury Woods sends them to Frost. |
Anonymous
| Sangster to Lake Braddock. |
Anonymous
| Willow Springs refuses to send them anywhere. |
Anonymous
| What are they taking at the MS and how do they skip their 6th grade math course? Aren't they missing out on some stuff? Just curious on this as we are in 6th grade in the MS and they do compact math in 6th and Algebra 1H in 7th. |
Anonymous
They are taking AAP Algebra I with the most advanced seventh graders. At our center it is between 6-8 kids. Those kids have been taking math with one AAP class ahead since third grade. They took the Iowa test and the 7th grade SOL in fifth grade, and met the score criteria that all the other rising 7th graders had to meet to be placed in Algebra I in seventh (but these kids were at the time fifth graders). Knowing the kids (not my kid) these kids are likely the top students in the seventh grade class as sixth graders. |
Anonymous
They don't skip their 6th grade math course. AAP center students take 6th grade math in fifth. These kids took 6th grade math in fourth. They have been working an AAP grade ahead (technically two grades ahead), in math since third grade. I guess you could say that they skipped third and fourth grade math and went right into fifth grade math. |
Anonymous
Oh my gosh! With that head start these kids are shoe-ins for the Ivy leagues and no doubt a lifetime of success. GET A GRIP, please! Just let your kids enjoy elementary school and keep your powder dry for when things matter. |
Anonymous
Can you read? My child is NOT one of those kids. The person asked if the kids aee skipping sixth grade math. Just because you don't like that there are some kids ho are math whizzes and are far more advance in math than most kids, doesn't change the fact that there are kids like this. As I said, it is not my kid who is taking math at the middle school. From what I can see, these kids are doing just fine and still have plenty of time to be kids. Math is very easy for them, so they are not spending any more time on the seventh grade Algebra than another sixth grader would spend on their grade level math. I have seen these kids in action and they are truly math whizzes. |
Anonymous
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OK - I am the OP. My kid IS one of these math whizzes. Would you prefer he sits in a math class of material he already understands and could do while sleeping? He is in fifth grade and could do algebra now. What do you propose I do with that?
And FWIW, I am not pushing him. He comes to me saying, "Mommy, I just did the XYZ Algebra unit on AoPS when I was finished with my homework...it was so much fun!" It is not about getting them into the Ivies and a lifetime of success...but rather teaching him at an appropriate level and having him be happy and engaged in his classes. Is that really to much to ask? So Oh My Gosh back at you.... |
Anonymous
| Some elementary schools will do this and some won't. It appears to depend on whether there are enough parents to really push the issue initially. My child's school would not do this, even though there were kids who were capable of it. The kids who probably would have been the ones in the program are at TJ now, so it didn't hurt them. |
Anonymous
| Does anyone else out there think it it inappropriate that only some students are offered this option? |
Anonymous
Every student is given this option to be evaluated. Very few qualify. The students are evaluated for math placement when they enter the center class in third grade. The ones that are far above the rest are moved up a grade that year. My child transferred in during fourth grade. My child was evaluated in math to be moved up a grade with these kids, as were the other students who transferred to AAP in fourth grade. I think one of the kids qualified. My child was not one of these kids. My child's friends transferred to AAP in fifth grade, a couple from out of state and a couple who recently qualified for AAP from the base school. Those kids were evaluated when the school year started and were not ready to go up a grade. I don't think they evaluated them this year in sixth as they would have had to already taken the Iowa in order to go into the seventh grade class. Whether or not they did, no kids were added to the group of the most advanced math students. |
Anonymous
No |