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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The smartest kids go[/b]:
Math 678 in 6th
Alg. Int. in 7th
Geometry Int. in 8th
Alg. II/Trig Int. in 9th
Precalc Int./IB Math SL Part 1 in 10th
AP Calculus BC/IB Math SL Part 2 in 11th
Vector Calc/Linear Algebra/IB Math HL part 2 in 12th

IB options for W-L only, obviously.[/quote]

or, the most ambitious kids or those most pushed by adults - not necessarily the smartest. [/quote]

Agreed. The math coach and GT teacher at the school where I teach and the math coach and GT teacher at the middle school where my DS attends all commented that they think the 6/7/8 plan is a bad idea and that they are glad the less intense plan is an option b/c so many kids end up dropping out or getting tutors to keep up.  It's not necessarily the smartest.  [/quote]

I was told same thing.  I was also shown data that only 70 kids out of 700 stayed on the path described above.  They also said a good majority of kids that were in accelerated and dropped off it end up doing worse, not completing as high a level as some of the kids that weee not on the most advanced track in MS.

My GT 5th grader was recommended Math 6/7/8, but we are doing Math 6.  90% of the kids in my older child’s 7th grace Intensified Algebra I class had a tutor all year.  I don’t get hiring a tutor just to stay 2-3 grade levels ahead in math.  It’s a race to nowhere.  What is the end goal?  It’s not needed in 99% of careers, minus a math professor.  I have a family of doctors and StEM professionals, engineers on both sides and nobody completed the path described above in HS.  [/quote]

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