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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a fact that parents and students need to consider wisely.  [b]Students are required to complete four years of math.[/b]  Taking Alg 1 in 6th leads to Calculus in 10 and two more years of required math.  Just because a kid is advanced, does not mean they are going to be wanting to take such advanced math later in HS.  Additionally, not all HS have a big enough cohort to offer many classes beyond Calculus which could put them at having to take courses through MC.

Also, there will be some missed content when you jump straight into Alg1 and it will be up to the student to bridge these gaps/seek out additional help.

This is not to say a student shouldn’t take Alg1 in 6th, but to show that MCPS isn’t readily recommending it to folks because they a) know there is no need to accelerate so quickly except in rare circumstances, and 2) that what starts out looking great in 6th many times does not seem that way come 10th/11th/12th grade.[/quote]

If they take high school credits in MS they still have to take 4 more years in high school? DDs aim is to go to Blair or Poolesville and without the Algebra 1 in 6th is it even possible?[/quote]

Yep.  The HS credit earned in MS doesn't get you out of mathematics - and it's also part of the HS GPA under most circumstances, so you want those grades to be good.

It's not about the number of math credits or how high up you go.  Math every. single. year. that your child is a student in MCPS.  So what looks exciting now (getting to algebra and geometry more quickly) could look really bad later on if the high-speed background doesn't stand up to two years of post-calculus study at the end of HS - especially if you are aiming for the kind of college that might be more impressed with As than they would be with hyper-acceleration.[/quote]

This is correct with one clarification.  The  HS classes taken in MS don’t get counted in your MCPS HS GPA unless the help your gpa be higher.  They do show on the transcript though, so colleges will see them and can recalculate however they wish.[/quote]

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