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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a 10th grader in Algebra II, he is not a preternatural math genius, and if he is not a preternatural math genius, for the love of God, please do not have him try to take an ultra-condensed Summer course. Either it will be pitched too high, and he will collapse, or it will be pitched too low, towards now-college aged kids who didn't understand high school math, and he will miss great swaths of material.
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I agree with you about summer math, but I wouldn’t assume much about a kid’s math acumen based on class placement in private school. A lot of it has to do with whether you are coming from an accelerated math program in public school prior to attending the school. My kid is in Algebra II in 10th (Catholic HS) and, suprisingly, it is not the norm. Class is primarily 11th grade students. Yes, some kids that came from public are a year ahead of my DC (ie, precalculus in 10th), but most students are in Geometry in 10th. [/quote]

A kid in Algebra II in 10th is moderately accelerated. But doing all of algebra II in the Summer and using it to springboard into pre-calc the next year while simultaneously taking four or five AP classes is for someone who effortlessly blows the math curve, and most of those kids would have managed to already be in higher math by that point. Summer Geometry is more common, more doable (since there are not as many direct dependencies subsequently) and it's pretty easy to find threads where people say it was a mistake letting their kids do it.

If he's already done Algebra II in something like AoPS, WTM, etc, and is just looking for something formal to check the box for transferrable credits, then I withdraw any objections. [/quote]

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