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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any risk that the number of kids going into 8th grade algebra will be pared back too? Many of the same arguments used to justify slowing kids down from 7th grade algebra could also apply to 8th grade algebra.[/quote]

County math staff is on record supporting eliminating of tracking, and wanting to eliminate prealgebra in 6th grade, for equity reasons.
[b]Eliminating algebra in 8th would fit with this, as that is what VMPI was doing[/b] while they were claiming algebra in 8th.  
The kids who are not capable of algebra in 8th would not be left behind, so this was really prealgebra in 8th as they admitted in some videos.
However, some of the current prealgebra curriculum was taught in algebra class when I was in school, like graphing line equations.
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DP. The prior PP is right about VMPI in practice even if VMPI did not state this publicly. VMPI Essential Concepts courses for grades 8-10 were supposed to cover Prealgebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2; four years of material in three years. The latter three courses currently generate three high school credits yet Essential Concepts only generated two high school credits, so VMPI chopped out a year's worth of high school content in these courses. As the prior PP noted, VMPI also said that all students would be capable of this compression. Thus, Essential Concepts Grade 8 had to be digestible to kids who hadn't taken Prealgebra which is why it would not have been comparable to Algebra 1's level of rigor. In practice, Essential Concepts were most likely Prealgebra, Algebra 1, and Geometry with only a small bit of Algebra 2. This is consistent with the current path of taking Algebra 1 in 9th grade. Under VMPI, most of Algebra 2 would have been either chopped or lumped in with Precalculus Focus on Functions.[/quote]

Their public statement was algebra, geometry, algebra 2 for grades 8-10, but in some videos they admitted there would be some prealgebra.
It is obviously prealgebra because all students were required to be in these classes, including the kids who are currently not given algebra in 8th grade.
An easy pathway solution that would have dealt with the issue of kids are not able to take advanced classes in high school because of what happened in middle school would be to make algebra available to any student who wants to take it.[/quote]

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