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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ds is in grade 7. He s currently taking algebra 1. He s thriving. I tried talk him out of it but he wants to take it and the teacher thought he d do well. [/quote]

This isn’t what you need to worry about. It is at the other end of your child’s academics when confronted with upper level math courses and possibly struggling there. T[b]he data is there in FCPS that shows a huge number of students taking less demanding courses in 11th and 12th grade because they aren’t prepared for the rigor due to acceleration and memorization vs. understanding.[/b] [/quote]

Or because they don't want to, even if they are highly capable. Kids and families choices once students finish algebra 2.

Why does it bother you what someone else chooses for their child?[/quote]

Because we have a problem in this area where kids needlessly accelerate in mathematics for no reason and in doing so many suffer from a lack of understanding of content because they aren’t prepared due to memorization. Students struggle and get frustrated for no apparent reason. [/quote]

And we used to live in a world where you can graduate high school and get a decent job in car factory or whatever where accelerated math is not needed.  But we don't live in that world now.  Our business leader told us that low end job will be shipped to China and India and we are supposed to upskill and do the high end jobs like designing and inventing and financing and consulting.  That's why everyone is "needlessly accelerate in math".

Of course in China, they just call it math.  Pre-algebra at 7th grade is standard cirriculum in Chinese middle school. Geometry at 8th grade is also stanard there.

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NP here. I’m Korean American. Kids are doing algebra in elementary school, not middle school in Korea. Whenever a kid comes from Asia, they run circles around the kids in math here.

I always tell my kids they are lucky to live in America. [/quote]

The kids who came to my kids school from Japan did not test into Advanced Math in 6th grade and is using a tutor for Algebra in 8th. [/quote]

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