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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have been given the option of putting our child in 6th grade algebra coming from GT magnet.  Would like some feedback from those whose child has done it.  Our child is not particularly "mathy" though who knows what direction life will take.  Challenge but by the time he is finished with HS..what level will he be at..probably more math than I ever had..maybe my future poet (kidding) doesn't need that challenge??[/quote]

I chose this path for my DC who attended the neighborhood MS after having attended a HGC in 4th (took Math 6) and 5th grade (took Math 7).  Although DC does well in math, DC is much more interested in language arts/history/social studies (DC, however, was  turned-off by the HGC experience and wasn't interested in continuing in the magnet program for MS -- but that's another story).  Coming out of the HGC, DC was well prepared to take Algebra I in 6th grade and frankly would have been bored with another year of arithmetic-based math instruction or with IM (which an older sibling took in order to delay Algebra I until 7th Grade).  DC now attends the neighborhood HS and is taking AP Calculus as a sophomore, plans to take Multivariable Calculus or Statistics as a junior, and will take some other math course as a senior (although DC may have to travel somewhere to take an appropriate level math course if one isn't offered at the local HS).  In short, my non-mathy DC greatly benefitted by taking Algebra I in 6th grade, and also starting foreign language in 6th grade, because those courses contributed the most academic rigor in DC's successful transition from the magnet program back into the general education program.  On the other hand, older DC greatly benefitted by delaying Algebra I to 7th Grade because that DC wasn't coming from a (rigorous) magnet program and also had more difficulty making the transition from ES to MS than the younger DC.     [/quote]

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