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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am very torn about whether my daughter should take AIM or AMP6+ next year in Middle School.  Her scores/grades should get her an invite to AIM.  However, I have a few concerns.  First, I'm not sure that I love a pathway that has kids taking Calculus junior year of high school.  Do colleges really care about kids being very advanced in math?  Or would senior year calculus be enough?  My bet is she leans more towards humanities or business rather than, say, engineering.

I am also concerned that while she has had straight As in compacted math, [b]I do a lot of prep work with her before exams and before MAP tests and while she gets it together when we do that, left to her own devices she probably wouldn't have those As and high MAP scores[/b].  Some of the fundamentals are forgotten by the time a MAP comes up, so review on multiplying decimals and dividing fractions has really helped.

Third, I've heard AIM is sort of a cobbled together curriculum and based on outdated math science, and that AMP6+ has a much stronger curriculum.

Any advice from the BTDTs of the world?  I want my daughter to feel successful in school and to not spend 2-3 years of high school totally stressed and in biweekly tutoring.  But I also want her to have a good shot at a good college (doesn't need to be Ivy, or even close -- just want a good school).

We have our middle school night for parents next week and will ask more then, but would love any thoughts folks are willing to offer here too.  Thank you.[/quote]

It's time to pull back and see what she can do on her own.  To me the advanced math track is for the kid that just gets it, their language is math.  You don't want your kid to struggle in math.  And the end of HS, if they are a STEM kid, they will have taken Calculus.  If it turns out that by senior year, math is not their jam, they can take math 12 and happily go off to a liberal arts major.[/quote]

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