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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I have the same concerns and am also wavering.  My daughter WANTS to take it and got a 96 percentile on her IOWA but I'm not convinced that she's a hard enough worker to make it through those higher level math classes later.  The reason she's doing well now is because she has great number sense and a fairly innate math ability when it comes to some of this stuff they're learning in 7th grade.  Once it gets to some of the more abstract concepts of math, I'm not sure how well she'll do.  Algebra will be fine.  Geometry will be harder because that's her weakest area overall.  And I think she'll do fine in Algebra II.  But we're at an IB school so the options after that are kind of murky and unfamiliar to me and I'm worried they'll be too challenging.  I expect her to take math all four years of high school so what kind of upper level math are we talking about here that she'd be setting herself up to take?

Half of me says to just let her chill and take Math 7H and save Algebra for 8th grade.  The other half says to let her challenge herself.  Still unsure.  And most of these responses aren't addressing your question of what comes next (later half of high school).  I did get some responses to that question when I asked it on a previous thread but can't remember which one.  You may be able to search for it.[/quote]

South Lakes HS is IB and has classes beyond the IB math class. I know of kids there who took dual enrollment math as Seniors. Just look at your high schools math offerings. [/quote]

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