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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does 6th grade math placement work? My 4th grader is, for lack of a better way to put it, a total math whiz and bored in his compacted math class. The curriculum site lists Algebra 1 as an "other option" for 6th grade. Is that something a kid could test into, or what?[/quote]

If you have a 4th grader now, you should advocate for them to do pre-algebra (AIM) next year, which will set them up for Algebra in 6th. Don't wait another year, start now. [/quote]

Oh wow, I had no idea this would be an option, our principal has been less than helpful when we've asked about options beyond compacted math. How could a 5th grader take AIM though? Would he have to be bussed over to a middle school for one period or something?[/quote]

This is not actually an "option." A very small number of children do this at a very small number of schools that allow it. If you're not at one of those schools you're out of luck and it does not matter how high the scores are or how advanced your child is. Every year my child's school has many parents like you talking about how advanced their child is and how bored they are. MCPS is already accelerating kids much more than other districts.[/quote]

PP with the math whiz here. Literally just here for information that I have so far been unable to get anywhere else, so it's both helpful to know it's in theory possible and also to know not to get our hopes up. It's less helpful to be sniped at about "parents like me", I could have gone into a lot more braggy detail about the whole situation but I restrained myself  :) [/quote]

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