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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious, would you say a 5th grader, who is about top 10% in AMC8 without prep, ready for Algebra 1 in 6th grade? [/quote] Yes, they are ready. Here is the question, are they doing the AMC 8 because they want to or because you tell them to? To me, the biggest issue is how much the kid actually likes math and wants to do math. Because they are being signed up up for two years of post calculus math at the age of 10. My kid loved math competitions and asked to participate in the the AMC 8 in 5th grade. He has friends who could do A1H in 6th grade but who think that extra math is an awful idea. They could but they don’t want to. He had friends perfectly capable of taking A1H in 7th grade wait until 8th grade because they don’t love math and the math beyond Calculus was not something that they would want to do. So ability matters but actual interest matters more. [/quote]
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