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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Geometry by 8th is considered the lower track in math in Moco, Arlington, and Fairfax. [/b]Yet it is the highest math track offered at the strongest school in dcps. Pathetic. [/quote]

No it’s not. :roll:

Geometry in 8th was the highest option without cramming a year of math into online summer school (until this year when they pushed algebra to 6th grade.)

Algebra in 8th/calc in 12th is very typical for a reasonably bright math student with a good percentage not taking it until 9th and never getting to calc at all.

—FCPS math teacher [/quote]

What’s reasonably bright in an overeducated an academic area like this? A median, 50th percentile student? [/quote]

What a weird comment. Max acceleration in math is not the norm, nor is it required for success in college admissions—even for a STEM kid! Plenty of smart, successful kids take calc in 12th grade. (In DCPS, geometry in 9th—not 8th—gets you to calc in 12th.)

I had two kids go through DCPS. One, a super-strong humanities kid, did geometry in 9th and calc in 12th and ended up at a top liberal arts college. The other kid was a math kid; we passed on the opportunity to double up alg1/geometry in 7th, meaning they took geometry in 8th, Calc BC junior year, and mvc/linear at a university senior year. That kid is majoring in math at a top 20 school.

OP, to your original question: if your kid is math-y, calc in 11th is probably the target. If not, calc in 12th is great.[/quote]

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