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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea. BUT I will say my kid missed the cut off and I asked him to be placed in pre-algebra anyway. He was placed and his grade for Q1 is 98% and it's his favorite class. So, the cut offs aren't the best predicators for success in the class IMO. [/quote]

There isn't much difference between Math 6 and Pre-Alg 6-7-8. The big difference happens in 7th grade, when the Pre-Alg 6-7-8 kids move to Intensified Algebra in 7th grade -- which is a high school credit class. [b]In my experience, a lot of the parents who pushed their kids into Pre-Alg 6-7-8 in 6th grade were the same parents who ended up hiring math tutors in 7th grade.[/b] APS has the score cutoffs for a reason. [/quote]

Do not assume that a family has a math tutor when their child is in advanced math since the child is struggling.  It is just as likely that it is an overcrowded class with an over worked teacher who is also dealing with various students of different abilities and disabilities.  We want our DC to have a strong basis in their math knowledge.[/quote]

We had to get a tutor for a kid on the advanced math track, who was placed on the track through APS's recommendation, not parent placement. The problem was that DC was in math 6-7-8 in 6th grade the year that Covid hit meaning they didn't get the last quarter of that course at all. Then they took Algebra intensified virtually in 7th, which didn't go particularly well. They made it through geometry in person just fine, but then with Algebra II, it became very obvious that there were big holes in their learning. The schools have been trying to catch up from that missed quarter by adding it to the next year, so each class is making up content that was not taught. But that isn't very workable. So we had to get a tutor, and I don't regret it one bit. [/quote]

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