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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So admittedly I am far removed from my own high school experience and my kids are still in ES, but the MS/HS math pathways surprised me a bit- do kids no longer take geometry and trig?

Pre-calc in 9th also seems a bit crazy to me (again this is coming from someone who graduated in the 90s where "accelerated" meant pre-calc in 11th and AP Calc in 12th).  But I don't understand what some of these students are meant to take in 12th if they've already had two years of calculus by then.[/quote]
Acceleration looks like this:

Alg 7th
Geometry 8th
Alg2/Trig 9th
Precalc 10th
Calc 11th
MVC/Diffeq/Stats 12th

That's the route both my kids took (now in college, one about to go). The one in college is a dual math major.  They easily passed all their accelerated math classes including MVC/Diffeq.   MAPS scores always at highest %ile, PARCC  scores always exceeding expectations, 5 on AP cal, 800 on SAT math.  Kid would've been incredibly bored in ES without HGC (former name of CES) and compacted math.  No, we did not ever tutor DC.

There are a lot of highly educated parents around here, so it's no surprise that there are a lot advanced learners here.

MCPS really is racing to the bottom.  We had intentionally  moved here for the magnets and acceleration programs.  So glad to be done with MCPS before they killed every program that made it great.[/quote]

On the link provided in the OP, it looks like starting in 2027-2028, there are three potential math pathways students will take (slide 14) where pre-calc may be taken anywhere from 9th-11 grade.  Am I understanding this correctly?  What is the difference between Math 6, Accel Math 6, and Grade 6 Pre-Alg?

I am partly asking this because we are currently overseas and I've been trying to keep track of where my kids (who currently attend an international school) will land when we return in a couple years.  Which is hard when MCPS keeps making changes![/quote]

Math 6 = 6th grade math, on track to start algebra in 9th
Accel Math 6/AMP 6+ = 6th & half of 7th grade math (with the other half of 7th+8th taken in 7th grade), on track to start algebra in 8th-- for strong kids in grade-level 5th grade math or kids who did compacted 5/6 who could use a slowdown/reinforcement  
Grade 6 Pre-Alg = 7th & 8th grade math (with 6th grade math completed in grade 5 as part of compacted math), on track to start algebra in 7th
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Algebra in..

7th - advanced
8th - on track
9th - behind[/quote]

It’s this message that continues to cause problems. Algebra is a HS math course. MCPS (and other districts) altered  pacing to allow for more kids getting to Algebra by 8th and thus Calculus by 12th.  This is an acceleration, it’s just more broadly applied.

Lids taking Algebra in 9th are not behind and could actually go on to take Honors Math every year thereafter.[/quote]

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