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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello,

I'd appreciate any insight of the wisdom of a 7th grader who is finishing up Algebra I taking Geometry over the summer so she can take Algebra II as an 8th grader.

Kiddo is a solid A math student (not a "prodigy" IMO) and I have no doubt she can handle the class (both summer geo and Alg II in 8th).  She's open to doing it, but not effusive about it.  The question is, is it worth it?  To my surprise, her FCPS middle school does have a class for Alg II in 8th, so there's no extra travel needed.  Don't want to deprive my kid of an opportunity but nor do I want to do it just because other parents have unthinkingly forced this upon their kid.

Advantages I've heard:

--Better to minimize the temporal gap between Alg I and II, to minimize how much material is forgotten.
--"Looks better" on a college application
--Better prepared for SAT, because more math earlier = better.

Possible disadvantages:

--No real point academically.  It means you can take multivariable/linear as a junior rather than a senior, but so what?  No obvious continuation class.
--No benefit for college admissions.  Its all about the grades, not how early you took the classes. 
--Worse prepared for SAT, because geometry is all over the SAT and a kid is apt to forget a lot of it by SAT-time if taken over 5 weeks in a middle school summer, sandwiched between two full-year Algebra courses.

Welcome any input from anyone who's faced this Q or has insight into it.
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What are your qualifications for "not doubting"  that she can learn geometry in 6 weeks?

If she's going to forget it by SAT, then she isn't really learning it in 6 weeks.

If she has so little interest and ability in math that she didn't learn much geometry on her own before the summer term started, and will forget algebra if she takes geometry for a year, why do you want to pile even more math classes onto her? [/quote]

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