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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good for you,  07:23!  Honestly, kids would are on the regular math path will do just fine and I can't believe some of the topics people are worried about a HS student taking!  My kid will be taking pre-algebra in 7th, but if the idea of math placement was bringing him to tears, I'd think long and hard before pushing.  There are going to be a lot of AP and Intensified classes in the future and I don't think we need to be stressing them out at the age of 12.[/quote]

Totally agree.  I do have kids that love and are good at math and the accelerated path has been good for them but are doing the W-L preferred path of Calc AB-BC in 11th-12th.  I don't see them not taking post-calc math as a failure but rather that this path has given them the opportunity to take a slower approach to calculus to get a solid foundation.  It also gives the opportunity to try both calculus and statistics if the student wants to without doubling up math senior year.  Really, I think statistics rather than calculus should be the standard senior level class since a knowledge of statistics is a much more important in every day life, in being an informed consumer of information.[/quote]

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