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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many girls take geometry during summer before grade 9?[/quote]

My understanding is no one needs to take summer math with the current math tracking  - integrated math covers 3 years of material during freshmen and sophomore years (rather than take geometry or any math in the summer).  I think 10-15 girls get recommended for integrated.  The rest of the freshmen start in geometry (gets you to AB Calc) or honors geometry (gets you to BC Calc).

And as a parent of a senior, I don’t think anyone needs high school math beyond multivariable.  No college will turn a kid down bc they took multivariable rather than number theory.   If your kid is that advanced, spend the extra time doing research, more ECs, math contests or AP test.  Holton STEM scholars or global scholars are amazing.

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There are 5-6 freshman girls in the algebra 2 honors class too. But most of them are new girls who joined Holton in 9th grade. I think only one girl or two girls placed out of geometry. [/quote]

I don’t know about the new girls but there are at least 10 girls who placed out of geometry from Holton middle school and are in the new integrated math class (which is above geometry and gets you to multivariable senior year).  And there may have been girls who placed above that, my daughter says there were but I never followed up.
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