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What confuses me is that you have posters saying that taking Algebra in 9th grade thus ending up in pre-calc as a senior is "remedial". Then you have a high school math teacher saying taking any calculus in high school is "very advanced". So 9th grade algebra 1 leading to sr year pre calc is remedial, but 8th grade algebra 1 leading to calculus AB sr year is very advanced?  These two scenarios are based on Algebra 1 being taken one year apart! [/quote]

In MCPS, now, algebra in 7th grade is above grade level, algebra in 8th grade is grade level, and algebra in 9th grade is below grade level. So calculus in high school is grade level, not "very advanced".

In my US high school in the 1980s, algebra in 8th grade was above grade level, and only the advanced students took calculus in high school -- so maybe the high school math teacher PP is referring to how things used to be. (I assume that my school system was not the only one in the US with a math track where most students were not expected to take calculus.) Or maybe they are referring to calculus itself being advanced math.[/quote]

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