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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to understand the course sequencing in high school.  
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/graduation-requirements-and-course-planning/high-school-course-sequencing/mathematics

[b]For example, for math, high school gen ed start with Algebra on 9th grade, and finishes at 12 grade at Pre-Calculus[/b].

Advanced high school math would require starting Algebra sometime in middle school as honor class, and finish Calculus at grade 12.

AAP student would start Algebra at 7th grade, and finish Calculus at grade 11.

For certain students exhibit advance math ability, they can start Algebra at 6th grade (emphasis: Algebra is a high school class!) and that student would finish calculus at grade 10, and have two more years to take more advanced math or physics classes.  It looks impressive on college application.  That's the goal.

So that family could be shooting for more advanced math than AAP, and shooting for MIT or CalTech.  They don't need enrichment to "keep up" in AAP.   [/quote]There are plenty of non AAP students that take Algebra 1 in 8th grade. A good majority of kids at Longfellow do. Thereby taking Geometry in 9th, Algebra 2 in 10th, PreCalc, then Calc. And a lot of those on that tract take HN 9th and 10th then AP for the 11th,12th.[/quote]

AAP kids take Algebra at 7, which results in Calculus at 11.   Taking Algebra at 8 results in Calculus at 12, unless they accelerate using a summer course. I believe non-AAP kid will get an advanced high school diploma, but they are still 1 year behind AAP kid in math. [/quote]
You're wrong with this.  About 20% of the FCPS kids are in AAP.  Another 20% are in gen ed advanced math.  All of these kids take IAAT and 7th grade math SOL in 6th.  Those who meet the benchmarks, whether they're coming from AAP or gen ed advanced math, will be allowed to enroll in Algebra in 7th.  About half of the kids in AAP don't qualify and instead take M7H in 7th and Algebra I in 8th.  Some fraction of the gen ed advanced math kids will qualify and take Algebra in 7th.

My gen ed advanced math kid qualified for and took algebra in 7th.  Many of the AAP kids at her center did not qualify and took Algebra in 8th.  My gen ed kid was a year ahead of many of the AAP kids in math.[/quote]

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