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[quote=Anonymous]We didn't even know this was a possibility until our son's school approached us about it. Basically, they had identified him as a candidate based on some combination of SOL score and 4th grade math teacher comments, and reached out to us in the first couple weeks of 5th grade to see if we were interested. So at that point he switched 6th grade math for the year, with the understanding that if he did well enough on that year's SOL and the IAAT, he would do Algebra I in 6th at the MS.

I don't think that taking extra steps (summer or outside school, tutoring, etc.) to speed up math advancement is a good idea, but he was clearly capable of handling the material then and in later classes, so it's worked out well enough. Not being bored in a year's worth of math class was probably more of a benefit than a hypothetical semester or two freed up in college.

And as it turned out, he's not going to be extra-advanced anyway, since he ended up at TJ with their idiosyncratic math sequencing. Since we won't let him take Math 5 during the summer, he'll do his first calc course a year later than he would've at our base school.[/quote]

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