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[quote=Anonymous]The issue with honors algebra classes is that many of the students have already taken an algebra class outside of school through AOPS or CTY or parents buy the AOPS workbooks or another curriculum and have their kids work through it.

If you are in a class with a bunch of those kids it is going to be hard because the teacher thinks some kids are getting it. There are some kids who haven’t done any outside math classes and excel as well. So if your kids is smart but not really mathematically inclined it makes it hard to take algebra in 7th.

What we did instead is we put our kid in honors 7th math and they took the AOPS algebra class in the evenings. In 8th grade honors algebra was a breeze. So they had time to take geometry in the evenings with AOPS. Then they took summer school geometry in the summer between 8th and 8th and caught up to the kids who took algebra in 7th. I feel like my kid did better in algebra 2 because they had such a good foundation because they had two years of algebra 1 (first year in AOPS in 7th, second year at school).[/quote]

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