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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math 7 is just the grade level class. It keeps kids on the regular track in common core, which is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

[b]Math 7+ covers the 2nd half of 7th grade math and all of 8th grade.[/b] It puts kid on track for Algebra 1 in 8th grade (a year early).

They may ask your kid to take an assessment if you are trying to get your kid into an accelerated class (7+ or algebra).

Wrong. My son was in 6+ and will be in algebra next year in 7th grade. Several of his classmates from 6+ are also going to algebra in 7th.

"Advanced" English is on grade level and has texts that are below grade level included. Nothing advanced about it. Just warning you.

If your kid is advanced at reading/writing, try to get them into Historical Inquiry into Global Humanities (HIGH). That has a couple of books added in and a History Day project.[/quote]

Sort of/mostly.  The combo of 6+ and 7+ covers the 6th, 7th and 8th curricula in compacted fashion.  With the spiral nature of the MS curriculum, where elements get covered more than once, with review & greater depth as you go, they combine these and rearrange them across the two accelerated courses to achieve compaction/manage the rate. While a lot of 6th and the first half of 7th remains in 6+ and a lot of the second half of 7th and 8th remains in 7+, it's not straight line.

There are curricular guides that mighy help if you know the common core material that your DC already has covered:

AMP 6+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/1/index.html

AMP 7+ https://im.kendallhunt.com/MS_ACC/teachers/2/index.html[/quote]

So if a child is in 6+ and covers all of 6 and half of 7 and then goes to algebra, when do they cover the latter half of grade 7 topics? [/quote]

If they do that they will miss some 7th grade topics and all of the 8th grade topics. That's why that is generally not allowed. [/quote]

What do you mean it’s generally not allowed?  I understood that in some schools half the 6+ kids go to 7+ and half to grade 7 algebra.  [/quote]

No. From 6+ they go to 7+. It's a two-year sequence. If you enroll in 6+, then you are doing Algebra in 8th.[/quote][/quote]

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