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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm thinking of asking when my kid gets to middle school at his EOTP middle school that he get placed right away into Algebra. Any experience with this at Brookland/MacFarland/McKinley (or Wells or Oyster)? This kid could pass any placement test for that kind of thing.

His math skills are always way ahead of peers.
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Assuming this is not a joke. I suggest waiting to see where he scores on I ready in 4th or 5th grade before assuming he is ready for Algebra in 6th.  Maybe get him outside math instruction or see how he does on Kahn academy.  A student needs to be sufficiently knowledgeable about Math 8 skills before they are ready for Algebra, it is not just about aptitude.
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This isn't a joke. This kid has always been ahead, and gets everything ahead of his class, but hasn't been pushed beyond grade level. So it's really good to know he needs to build up to 8th grade math to get into Algebra.

(Just for context, I was a kid in a really rural school where they decided to have about a dozen middle schoolers do Algebra in the early 90s. I was put in Algebra at the beginning of 7th grade, some were in 8th grade. We of course were very hard on the teacher because we had been the guys who could goof around and get As regardless, so we hounded our teacher out of our school and made her cry and were basically terrible children. I really hope that teacher's life turned for the better after having us, because we really were terrible. But long story short, I lack references for what you actually need to be qualified for Algebra in a normal school setting as we were just placed in it because of our general grasp of math.)[/quote]

Send him to BASIS if you’re looking for truly accelerated math. And yes as PP said there is a great debate about whether accelerated math is a good or bad thing. (Part of the reason they do it at BASIS is so students are prepared for AP Physics and AP Chem earlier and able to take all post-AP classes in 12th). [/quote]

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