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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A year long class is about 180 hours of instruction, and typically for every hour of class there’s half an hour of homework and studying, roughly 270 hours.

If you take the class over summer in six weeks, you’d have to study 9 hours a day, if you don’t include weekends.

It’s possible to do it if it’s only a review, or if you’re fine with not understanding it well because it’s not as connected to the rest if math. [/quote]
The hundreds of FCPS students that take summer math classes know what they are doing.  FCPS continues to offer summer classes because of their unique educational value proposition.  In fact there may not be a single public school system in US that does not offer summer classes.

Among all math classes, Geometry stands out as the ideal course to take during the summer. It's concise, focused, and students find it enjoyable to learn.  [/quote]

What’s the unique value proposition for taking summer geometry? Geometry is unique in the sense that among high school classes is not related to any the Algebras before and after. It does have some basic trigonometry for precalculus, but most can catch up to that quite easily.

Sounds like a miserable way to spend the summer to be honest, and it just seems like a quick way to catch up with the kids that started algebra in 6th. But if the kid wasn’t good enough to start Algebra in 6th, dumping a lot of geometry on them over the summer after 7th so they can do algebra 2 in 8th doesn’t seem like that great of an idea.

The risk is the kid is not prepared for that pace and level. Watered down Algebra 2 taught in middle school may be fine, but if they’re stuck in honors precalculus and wreck their GPA, that’s going to be much harder to turn around.

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