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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is anecdotal but I know lots of kids who were on the Math track which brought them to Algebra II in 8th grade and many of them hit a wall during this course.  These were strong students who had been accelerated into Algebra I in 6th grade and did very well in this course and in geometry in 7th but had trouble in Algebra II[/quote]
Again anecdotal but I know many students who had the same experience. This is not an option for the OP but based on what I observed (GT students acing Math and floundering in Algebra 2) I had my kid do IM in 6th   So slower Math progression in middle school. Kid did AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics in high school but did not also take AP Calculus AB. In other words slower through middle school (a math teacher at a top 5 private recommended this saying that at this age brains are still developing and the higher level thinking in Algebra 2 can be tough for some students including gifted math students) and a more accelerated path through high school since he had a solid foundation in middle school. [/quote]

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