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[quote=Anonymous]My son qualified comfortably so we let him take Algebra 1 last year. Kid had always breezed through math, perfect grades, spent minutes on homework, it all seemed effortless. He was excited for the challenge.

Algebra 1 was a whole different level and he was totally unprepared. I blame his elementary school in part--he clearly had huge gaps in pre-Algebra preparation. I think the IOWA  is relatively speaking too easy to show that? I also think he just wasn't ready maturity-wise for the amount of new material, for the extremely high expectations, for how quickly the class moved on to new concepts. He spent hours on math every day and was not doing well. We let him struggle for a couple of months until it became obvious that he wasn't catching up quickly enough on the pre-Algebra material and not mastering the Algebra itself well enough.

Math 7 Honors was a return to the seemingly effortless experience with Math my son had had in elementary school. There was a HUGE difference in the degree of difficulty and expectations, a chasm. I wish there were something in between... my son was clearly not ready for one, but the second was no challenge at all.

Maybe some of this is school and teacher dependent. My son is at Longfellow if that makes a difference.

I also realized in the process that a number of kids had taken Algebra over the summer. So keep in mind that the Algebra 1 class is being taught to very bright kids, many of whom have seen the material before.[/quote]

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