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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, well this really went off the rails! I was just wondering what grade is typical for Algebra. I am not trying to accelerate my child nor do I think they are particularly gifted in math...just wondering if their school is offering the "typical" DC path in math. Their school offers Algebra in 8th.

I realize MCPS is different and does a lot of acceleration generally. I am more wondering about DC privates (hence the posting in this forum vs. public school)[/quote]

Nationwide, generally, Algebra is taught in 9th grade.
In this area, generally, most kids take Algebra in 8th grade. (1 year ahead of the national average.)
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Really? 25 years ago when I went to junior high in a small, rural town in Pennsylvania, Track 1 students (not necessarily gifted mind you. Just the college track kids) took Algebra in 8th Grade, Algebra II in 9th Grade and Geometry in 10th grade. I'm surprised that most people think taking Algebra I in 8th grade is ahead of the national average when my podunk school system was doing it this way years ago.[/quote]

So you are above average and you never knew it.

You can google Algebra in 8th grade and get a gazillion different articles on it.

Here is just one... the 1st one that came up. It points to studies if you real care that much.

http://www.edpubs.gov/document/ed005137p.pdf

[i]Eighth-grade algebra enrollment in the United States has been on the rise. While approximately 16 percent of all U.S. 13-year-olds (the age at which many students are in eighth grade) were enrolled in algebra in 1986, this figure rose to 22 percent in 1999 and to 29 percent in 2004 (Perie, Moran, and Lutkus 2005). This trend affects the average level of mathematics course attainment students have achieved by graduation. An example of this trend is provided by Dalton et al. (2007), who compared course-taking information from high school transcripts gathered from three nationally representative studies: the High School and Beyond (HS&B) Longitudinal Study, the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), and the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002). They found an increase between 1982 and 2004 in the number of high school graduates taking advanced mathematics courses and a concurrent drop in the percentage of students finishing high school having completed only lower level mathematics courses (e.g., algebra I and plane geometry).[/i]
Here is another one.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/03/18-eighth-grade-math-loveless[/quote]

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