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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why have both prealgebra and Foundations of Algebra? If a kid can go to Algebra 1 in 7th from either class, it seems like both are providing prealgebra skills. Does prealgebra cover additional material or is it the same material as Foundations but it goes deeper into the topics?[/quote]

Most kids will go from Foundations to pre Algebra. Very few will skip Pre and go straight to Algebra but it’s possible. Foundations takes the Math7 SOL at the end of the year, pre Algebra takes the Math8 SOL at the end of the year.

The new honors track for standard honors kids is:

6th - Foundations
7th - Pre Algebra
8th - Algebra 1
9th - Geometry

To do something more accelerated than the above now requires additional hoops. In my daughters MS this year there about ten 6th graders total taking pre Algebra and none taking Algebra 1. They made it much harder to accelerate more than 1 year (which is the above standard honors track.)[/quote]

In my daughters cohort (now 7th grade) - we had 1 kid take algebra in 6th.  Most of the kids were dumped into Math 6 with a good percentage taking foundations.  My kid fell into foundations - which was a waste.  Pre-algebra is basically a repeat of what she learned last year.  Would have prefer her to go directly to algebra, but not willing to do all the paperwork[/quote]

My 6th grader’s Foundations teacher is sending most of her strong students straight to Algebra. [/quote]

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