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[quote=Anonymous]Please do not overthink the various math pathways.

You need to get your daughter a tutor, because math is the topic amongst all others that builds upon itself, year after year. A lot of parents don't get this, but they cannot allow their kids to pass every grade with gaps in their conceptual reasoning in math. It's not like missing a concept in English, or a concept in science or music; those will be revisited and re-explained and kids will pick them up at some point. Math is a lot more unforgiving, and for private high school admissions or college admissions, it's still used as an indicator of intelligence, even for Humanities majors.

So either you tutor, or you hire a tutor. The tutor can't just provide answers to homework. You pay them to go back to basics and test the solidity of her math foundation, and to re-teach anything she's fuzzy on. And then you pay them to teach ahead.

For MCPS, just enroll her in whatever the school allows that's most advanced. They're going to gate-keep the fastest tracks anyway, since she didn't make compacted math, so there won't be any "hard" class. Maybe a "hard-for-her" class, but you're going to rectify that with a tutor. And don't let summer brain drain take hold. She needs to read and exercise her math skills in the summer as well.

One of my children made it to AP Calc BC as a senior, despite a specific math disability (dyscalculia). He was tutored by me and then I hired tutors. Your kid can apply herself and achieve too.

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