What is normal for 9th grade math

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Anonymous wrote:what an eye rolling thread.

my DD is coming to a non Big 3 private from DCPS middle school, and will be in Algebra I in 9th grade.

the only bummer of her math level for her is that she is very into science but the science classes are closely tied to math, so she may not be able to fit all of the science electives she wants to take before graduating.

Take geometry summer bt 8th and 9th grade. Have your school know that so you can get good schedule for 9th grade math and science.

Why not just take geometry in 9th?

your math transcript will be behind 40% of a school like J Reed, SWW, Whitman, Churchill, BCC, etc.
Those schools cover it in 8th grade or in 9th grade concurrent with the next algebra class.

same in Southlake, TX where we were from, near Dallas. 40% of the grade was poised to be done with AP Calculus Junior yr.

What are you talking about? ALL MCPS schools offer Algebra in 7th, a select few offer it in 6th and its not al the wealthy schools, it really is just up to the principal.

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Some of the local Catholic high schools place most of the kids in Algebra 1 freshman year. My DC was one of them even though he took advanced Algebra in 8th. I didn’t fight this because I figure they know their curriculum best. He had to take geometry over the summer in order to reach Calculus by 12th, but it still happened. There are obviously still kids in higher math levels in 9th, but they were generally the math genius type they took geometry in 7th at the public schools. I do not regret my son retaking Algebra and I think he benefitted from relearning many concepts.

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Anonymous wrote:Private with kids who started ap calculus as frosh. Best math student on to Harvard this year.

The best math students at Harvard are IMO gold medalists - an entirely different league than early calculus

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