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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Illustrative is a free curriculum, so you can look it up yourself online. You can look at everything covered in 8th grade math and you can also have your student do the 8th grade illustrative math course on Khan Academy.

The main algebraic concepts covered in 8th grade that they will need to learn are:

- Linear equations with the variable on both sides (like 1/2x + 5 = 2x - 10)

- Solving systems of equations with graphing and substitution

- The basics of functions [/quote]

thanks for bearing with all my questions.

I have a smart but unmotivated 6th grader who is very alienated by the computer-first pedagogy. He’s fundamentally got no math issues except that Iready and Zearn are irritating and demotivating formats. I’m pretty sure he could learn those three things now with a human teaching him. [/quote]

So buy a $10 prealgebra workbook. [/quote]

Is it that much to ask that the school provide a sequenced curriculum that parents can support at home with actual materials, that sets out everything that needs to be learned in a year to progress to the next year?

I guess so. [/quote]

My friend, you do have a sequenced curriculum. It's called Illustrative Mathematics. You can view it here: https://illustrativemathematics.org/math-curriculum/6-8-math/  Here is a detailed course guide to 8th grade math: https://curriculum.illustrativemathematics.org/MS/teachers/3/narrative.html If you ask the school for at-home materials I'm sure they'll be happy to point you to some.

If you don't want your child to skip 8th grade math, discuss that with the school. If you have some sort of problem with spiraling, that's on you. Most people are fine with it, and it doesn't mean the curriculum isn't "sequenced". It's sequenced in a manner that involves some review, and that is a good thing because most kids benefit from a refresher or a more detailed look at something.

You are overestimating the extent to which math needs to be learned in a linear sequence. There isn't a single correct order of doing things. As a PP said, it's more like a group of concepts that need to be mastered but not necessarily one before another. More likely they all need to be learned concurrently at a gradually escalating level of complexity and inter-relation.

It seems like the real problem is you're unhappy with what you see as your son's lack of motivation and lack of cooperation with computer learning. Maybe you need to look into the reasons for that.[/quote]

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