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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).

"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]

Nope. The topics are the same each year, reviewed and deepened. Kids move on to algebra when MAP-M shows they get it. [/quote]

That's not the case in MCPS -- they don't move kids up to algebra from 6+.[/quote]

Wrong. My son and several of his classmates just finished 6+ and will be in algebra in 7th[/quote]

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