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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea. BUT I will say my kid missed the cut off and I asked him to be placed in pre-algebra anyway. He was placed and his grade for Q1 is 98% and it's his favorite class. So, the cut offs aren't the best predicators for success in the class IMO. [/quote]

There isn't much difference between Math 6 and Pre-Alg 6-7-8. The big difference happens in 7th grade, when the Pre-Alg 6-7-8 kids move to Intensified Algebra in 7th grade -- which is a high school credit class. In my experience, a lot of the parents who pushed their kids into Pre-Alg 6-7-8 in 6th grade were the same parents who ended up hiring math tutors in 7th grade. APS has the score cutoffs for a reason. [/quote]

Well, wasn’t true for my kid… did well in algebra in 7th, geometry in 8th, and currently doing well in algebra ii in 9th. But at least when he was younger, just being in the advanced math class in 6th did not automatically translate to algebra in 7th. They had high cutoff scores for that, and most kids were not placed in algebra in 7th because the cutoffs were so high. I don’t know if that is still the case. [/quote]

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