S/o middle school math next year

Where is the course request tab in parentvue? I see synergy mail, calendar, attendance, current schedule, grade book, prior grades, school info, student info, documents, conference history and mymcps classroom. Should I be looking somewhere other than the main screen?

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04/09/2025 14:20

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Under course request tab

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08/16/2025 14:46

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Bump. Does anyone have info on the courses this year? When I look on the MCPS website, it looks like it’s still amp 6+ and amp 7+. And I must’ve missed when I could view the course request for my child in the spring.

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08/16/2025 18:04

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They are offering pre-algebra instead of AIM. The other classes are the same.

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08/16/2025 18:09

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Anonymous wrote:That’s incorrect. They are replacing the 6th grade advanced option of AIM or AMP 7+ with a new pre-algebras course based on Illustrative Mathematics. It will compact 7th and 8th grade standards into a year. (7+ is similar but skips some of the 7th grade standards.)

I wish my kid, who did AIM, could have done the new class. AIM was just a bad curriculum.

Mine skippped AIM and did Algebra.

Good for your kid. I’m PP and my kid would not have done well with that. But she could have used a much stronger curriculum than 2.0. I mean, there were typos in the packets, and the skills didn’t build logically. She’s doing much. Enter in A1 with Illustrative Mathematics.

I don’t know why MCPS tries to write its own curriculum when there are better options out there. They just rewrote their bad HS English curriculum to make it slightly less bad, when there are strong external options they could have selected.

This is why you supplement at home.

No need. My kid has zero interest in STEM and won't major in anything having to do with computers, engineering, or medicine. It's enough for DC to do well in the math they're assigned.

I've used no mathematics at all in my high-level job and studied no math since high school. I'd love to see a choice-based HS pathway that required statistics and basic accounting. Those are the kinds of applications that relate to my workplace and, I suspect, to many others. I'd also like to see a pathway where all of the precalc and calc were directed immediately towards applications - economic models, scientific models.