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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  We didn't know that White Oaks offered such advanced math.  Thanks very much for this info.  Our plan is to buy before we apply to the Takoma magnet, shuttling between our DC and MD places during our last year in DCPS (5th grade).  Sounds like our chances of cracking the magnet would be best from Takoma Park, particularly for a girl. Rockville would be a bear of a commute for one of us.

Does anybody know what happens to Takoma MS kids who, for some reason, aren't admitted to the magnet but can handle 6th or 7th grade algebra?  Are they allowed to take math classes with the magnet kids?  I'm waiting for the magnet coordinator to get back to me with the answer.

We've heard that the magnet admits a few students internally, from 6th grade for 7th.

Thanks again.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who posted about White Oak.  Both Stonegate and Westover have had significant numbers students who take Math 7 in 5th grade (these are the students who took Math 6 in 4th grade); those students then move on to Algebra in 6th grade at White Oak.   This is the current/recent past situation because these students were already on the accelerated path in the general education program before MCPS rolled-out the 2.0 curriculum; so it could be that in the coming years there will not be significant numbers of students who are even reaching Math 6 by 5th grade.  But since your kids are middle school age, they should be able to get on/stay on the accelerated track that currently exists outside the magnet program.  And, in comparison to White Oak, Takoma Park magnet students -- regardless of whether they took Math 6 or Math 7 in 5th grade -- take Magnet Math 6 in 6th grade (formerly, Magnet IM); magnet students typically do not take Algebra (the magnet level course) until 7th grade.  Students who successfully complete the Takoma Park magnet program, typically move on to Algebra II (they will have taken Geometry in 8th grade); students who successfully complete the accelerated track at White Oak, typically take Pre-Calculus in 9th grade (they will have taken Geometry in 7th grade and Algebra II in 8th grade); but, at some point, I think all of the students end up in the "same" place on their respective magnet vs. general ed tracks (because the magnet level courses in HS are often compressed -- for example, a magnet student could essentially take Calculus AB and Calculus BC as a single course vs. a general ed student taken them as two separate courses).  Finally, the same accelerated math track that is available at White Oak is/should be available at Takoma Park for its accelerated non-magnet students; however, non-magnet students do not take magnet math courses, instead they take the appropriate general ed course (for example, Geometry or Honors Geometry).

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