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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid met a child who is in Calc BC in 8th grade at Takoma Park Middle School.  What is the path to get there?  It would mean Algebra 1 in 4th grade (?) Doubling up of classes?  Im so curious.  How would a kid get there?[/quote]

One of my children is at TPMS and on the math team. They only know of a few kids who took AIM in 5th at wealthy schools that offered it to their students. These kids take Algebra 2 in 8th, but the school accepts this but does not encourage this.[/quote]

Yes, I was going to say that this just doesn't sound like TPMS.  Most kids do im in 6th, Alg 1 in 7th and Geom in 8th. Some are a year behind.  A few came from schools that maybe didn't have a peer group or had adamant parents who pushed them ahead.  The TP ESs won't do this, but some mcps ESs did. Those kids who are a year ahead bus to Blair to do either Pre Calc (which is a 3 semester course comprised of Alg 2 Trig and precalc. First 2 semesters are mostly Alg 2/ Trig) or Functions (this course condenses Alg2/Trig and precalc into pne year). Note I say condense, not skip. These courses (esp Functions) are more work than a regular math year.

I suppose it's possible that a kid could be 2 years ahead through summer classes, but that would be very hard to accommodate, since TPMS coordinates with Blair, and the Analysis class is not set to work with that. (It's Analysis 1, not Calc BC, and it goes farther/deeper than BC).

TPMS has emphasized depth and breadth of material rather than acceleration.  For example,  they will add a logic unit in Algebra. [/quote]

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