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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holton messed up the math curriculum in its Middle School. But that should not affect your daughter, who would be coming into HS. The new girls coming into 9th grade can be placed into Algebra 2 honors or Precalc Honors.

PP with DD starting MS. We were concerned with this as well but upon digging in further and really thinking about it, we came around to Holton's position. Expanding the Algebra curriculum across two years provides students with a solid foundation for more advance math courses later in HS. Holton added more depth to the Algebra courses so it's not like they took a one-year Algebra curriculum and spread it across two years. For the advance math students, this may be a disadvantage during MS but they will accelerate during HS.[/quote]

Glad that you have done the research. The narrative sounds very good. However, this is still an experiment. The other side of it is that geometry, algebra 2 and Precalc get compressed into 2 years (instead of 3) in the integrated math class. The verdict is still out whether the whole approach makes sense. My daughter was incredibly bored in the two algebra 1 classes in MS. [/quote]

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