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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I should have been clearer, and am not used to all the acronyms. But at the TPMS magnet open house, the magnet coordinator said that 11 of the incoming 125 (or however many they selected initially) had already taken in 5th grade what the magnet students would take in 6th grade. I realize that the CES kids take two years of compacted math, so I think should be a year ahead by 6th grade, but the message was that there is a group of 11 who are, essentially, 2 years ahead.[/quote]

Not just CES kids, by the way. Lots of kids did not attend a CES but were placed in compacted math in their home school.

To the point, however, MCPS is one year ahead of math in most of the country. A child who is on grade level in MCPS will take Algebra 1 in 8th grade. In most of the country, including possibly where the OP is from, grade-level math is Algebra 1 in 9th grade.

So, those 11 kids admitted to TPMS (who do not comprise the whole cohort of kids who did AIM in 5th grade, by the way) are three years ahead of most schools in the country. That math pathway will let them access lots of amazing opportunities in HS. Even the "regular advanced" kids will have two years of AP math in high school.

Finally, there's no guarantee that OP's child (who is in preK) will need to be three years advanced in math. Genetics doesn't work that way - you can' predict whether a child is going to be mathematically gifted based solely on what math pathway her mom took. [/quote]

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