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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is in the private school forum?…

My public school kid is completing Algebra II/Geometry in 7th grade.  (Normal at her school is 8th grade.)

Glad I’m not paying $50k a year to be several years behind where she is now.[/quote]

Algebra II/Geometry is *not* customary for 7th grade in public school!  So, your child is going to take Calculus in 8th grade? [/quote]
That person doesn’t seem to know what their kid is actually studying because Algebra II/Geometry is not a thing. The standard track is Alg I, Geo, Alg II, Precalc, Calc of some kind, regardless of which grade a kid starts that track in. Some schools flip Geometry and Algebra II. More math-oriented kids will track into Algebra II/Trig instead of just Algebra II. Typical level would have that in 10th, a good chunk of kids will have that in 9th. Maybe pp meant their kid was in Alg II/Trig in 7th? But if so, that’s about 3 years advanced over the base track that gets that in 10th. This is true for public as well. Yes, there are math geniuses taking classes at that level in MS and no, most private schools typically cannot advance to that level simply because they do not have enough students to be able to offer that amount of differentiation. [/quote]

MCPS has over 1/3 of students doing geometry in 9th grade.
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sWW and DCPS has 9th graders taking two math classes - geometry and algebra something. [/b]

The whole point is geometry is a standalone class, get it done before physics, don’t lose your algebra skills in the meantime. [/quote]

These classes are a complete joke.  My kid went from DCPS with straight As (frankly--above 98%) on to a Big3.  Had to repeat Honors Algebra 2 at the Big3 school and struggled to get a low A--despite having taken the exact class before in DCPS.  Classmates at another Big3 had the same experience. 
All math is not the same.  DCPS teaches a very, very shallow and cursory version of things.  I know that the suburban magnets also delve deeply but we were shocked how little my kid was taught on this advanced track in DCPS.

I have another 2 kids in DCPS so we are not anti public school by any means but I wanted to share this experience. [/quote]

This has been my fear.

So publics need to slow it down and cover less but cover it very well. [/quote]

It’s not necessarily the coverage of actual content and may be more to do with the types of problem solving requested for quizzes and test.[/quote]

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