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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't remember - it was above the 99th percentile, as her scores always are, but not spectacular like the ones occasionally mentioned here (and that I sometimes doubt are real). Her middle school math coordinator organized tests for those who were interested in moving up to Alg 1, the summer before 6th grade. She was in the Chevy Chase CES before that, and was not picked in the lottery round for the STEM magnet middle school.

She did not apply to a magnet high school, so she's at her home high school at BCC, taking Precalc in 9th grade.

Be warned that every time the subject is discussed on DCUM, an odd duck will chime in to insist that only Potomac schools allow kids to take Alg 1 in 6th. Which is not true. It's only that MCPS keeps this pathway under wraps, so it's usually educated parents in the know who ask to test-in.

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I do agree with you that more schools than Potomac schools will allow 6th graders in Algebra I, but it is not typical, and, there are plenty of middle schools that absolutely do not allow it. It doesn't matter how "educated" you are on the matter. There are other ways to get your kid to Pre-Calc in 9th ([b]double up on math in 8th grade for example[/b]).[/quote]

How do we do that? I think the current path at the school my kid is in is AIM6-Algebra1-Geometry. [/quote]

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