7th grade course options

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

[Anonymous]

What's the advantage for kids to take Algebra in Grade 7 and Honors Geometry in Grade 8 rather than the accelerated Grade 7?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the advantage for kids to take Algebra in Grade 7 and Honors Geometry in Grade 8 rather than the accelerated Grade 7?

The advantage, which isn't one for everyone, is then being on track to take Calculus in 11th and another year of post-Calc math after that. This may work if the student is a really high flyer in HS math, but can be too much acceleration for others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed.

What do you mean it’s generally not allowed? I understood that in some schools half the 6+ kids go to 7+ and half to grade 7 algebra.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed.

What do you mean it’s generally not allowed? I understood that in some schools half the 6+ kids go to 7+ and half to grade 7 algebra.

No. From 6+ they go to 7+. It's a two-year sequence. If you enroll in 6+, then you are doing Algebra in 8th.

[Anonymous]

PP are you thinking about what happens after compacted math? For kids who do 5/6 math in 5th grade, some will go onto AIM/7+ in 6th grade (depending on which one the school offers to the most advanced 6th graders), both of which will lead to algebra in 7th; others go onto 6+, repeating some content from compacted math. Those students will then do 7+ in 7th grade and then algebra 1 in 8th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed.

What do you mean it’s generally not allowed? I understood that in some schools half the 6+ kids go to 7+ and half to grade 7 algebra.

No. From 6+ they go to 7+. It's a two-year sequence. If you enroll in 6+, then you are doing Algebra in 8th.

They can go up, down, or stay on track after each year until algebra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed.

Nope. The topics are the same each year, reviewed and deepened. Kids move on to algebra when MAP-M shows they get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the advantage for kids to take Algebra in Grade 7 and Honors Geometry in Grade 8 rather than the accelerated Grade 7?

The advantage, which isn't one for everyone, is then being on track to take Calculus in 11th and another year of post-Calc math after that. This may work if the student is a really high flyer in HS math, but can be too much acceleration for others.

Or Stats for normal Honors flyers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed.

Nope. The topics are the same each year, reviewed and deepened. Kids move on to algebra when MAP-M shows they get it.

That's not the case in MCPS -- they don't move kids up to algebra from 6+.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).


Wrong. My son was in 6+ and will be in algebra next year in 7th grade. Several of his classmates from 6+ are also going to algebra in 7th.

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed.

What do you mean it’s generally not allowed? I understood that in some schools half the 6+ kids go to 7+ and half to grade 7 algebra.

No. From 6+ they go to 7+. It's a two-year sequence. If you enroll in 6+, then you are doing Algebra in 8th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade. It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.

Sort of/mostly. The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion. With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics?

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed.

Nope. The topics are the same each year, reviewed and deepened. Kids move on to algebra when MAP-M shows they get it.

That's not the case in MCPS -- they don't move kids up to algebra from 6+.

Wrong. My son and several of his classmates just finished 6+ and will be in algebra in 7th

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the advantage for kids to take Algebra in Grade 7 and Honors Geometry in Grade 8 rather than the accelerated Grade 7?

The advantage, which isn't one for everyone, is then being on track to take Calculus in 11th and another year of post-Calc math after that. This may work if the student is a really high flyer in HS math, but can be too much acceleration for others.

Or Stats for normal Honors flyers.

Another option is that it allows them to take Calc AB in 11th grade, and Calc BC in 12th grade for a stronger calculus foundation -- that's what my kid did (9th Grade Alg 2, 10th grade precalc, 11th grade calc ab, 12th grade calc bc plus stats). I agree that it's too much acceleration for some, particularly because Alg 2 is pretty difficult, but just wanted to point out that there are other options to slow it down and go more indepth if the kid wants.