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[quote=Anonymous]OP, just FYI, this was what I noticed last year: My child was a sixth grader in an AAP center last year. Her sixth grade class was doing seventh grade math It was their standard curriculum. That's why the kids who were in her class are all either in seventh grade honors math or in Algebra 1 honors now, in seventh grade.

Two fifth graders were in her math class last year for most of the year.

That means that these two fifth graders were effectively doing seventh grade math. I do not know if those two fifth graders were in fifth grade AAP classes or if they came from the general ed math classes.

OP, find out the details of what "sixth grade math" really means in your AAP center (is it sixth grade curriculum or really seventh grade math?) or Level IV or whatever your school has. In our center, sixth grade math was mostly seventh grade math, so any fifth grader joining that class was pretty advanced. I wish I could tell you how these two kids were selected to be in the sixth grade class but I don't know; however, I suspect that they were so far ahead at the start of the year that the fifth grade teachers wanted them in the higher math class. I don't know if any specific tests were involved. If you have a fifth grader who needs challenging, talk directly with the teacher and perhaps ask to talk to the fifth grade and sixth grade math teachers together about how to proceed.[/quote]

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