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[quote=Anonymous]I taught M7H for years and years.  Each year my class was around 75% kids who had taken advanced math in elementary school and didn't make the cutoff for algebra (or opted out).  The other 25% of kids were coming from M6, skipping M7, and going to M7H (WHICH IS M8, not a more advanced version of m7!)

Of those that skip M7, majority of them struggled.  The ones who did alright had M6 SOL scores 460+.  Below that was nearly a sure sign the kid was going to try to drop to M7 after 1st quarter, when the courses have diverged so much it's very challenging to shift.  Those with 460-500 needed a little extra support but caught on well enough.  Those with 500+ on M6 SOLs were fine.

Math 7 introduces a lot of concepts for the first time that are only seen for a day in M7H and then expected to be fluent.  Things like slope of a line (in M7H I spent one day on it graphically, one day on it from 2 points, and one day on the slope intercept form of the equation).  In math 7, that's a whole unit.  Math 7 spends 2-3 weeks solving multistep equations with the distributive property and fractions and negative coefficients.  M7H spends 2 days reviewing it, and then it's on to variables on both sides. Etc, etc, etc.

Taught well, the M7H class is essentially 1st semester algebra stretched out over 3/4 of the year with extra challenges thrown in.  Math 7 is algebra foundations.  Both are appropriate stepping stones to take algebra the following year if desired (though M7H generally leads to algebra honors and M7 to algebra)[/quote]

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