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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the point of doing it? If you all think your child will have a better chance at a top 15 then you are mistaken. Its not going to help. My DC took Algebra in 6th, pre calculus in 9th, MV, AP stats, linear algebra all by 12th grade. In addition to other AP science classes. He was waitlisted and then denied at MIT as well as other Ivy League schools. He was accepted to UMich, Georgia Tech etc.. but so were others who didn’t take all these advanced math classes. Most students at our large public who were accepted to Ivy schools were legacies and athletic recruits who did not take any such advanced classes. So chill.. [/quote]

You don't get it. My kid just wanted to not be bored in class. Accelerated math is the ONLY class where she doesn't pull out a book to read.

I couldn't care less about colleges. She'll do well wherever she goes.

You really must understand that different kids have different needs.[/quote]
I get it. I have one of those kids.  260 map-m in third grade.  It’s ok to be a little bored.  What you aren’t thinking about is down the road.  Most HS don’t even have the classes to support taking algebra in 7th.  Highly doubt whatever MCPS is doing with the magnets is improving this. 
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PP you replied to. She's in high school now, and will either go to UMD or CC for an additional math class or take AP Stats at her high school after multivariable calc.

This isn't a little boredom. I cannot ask her to be miserable her entire K-12 years and be depressed. She was depressed before. She's accelerated everywhere as much as her high school has allowed her to be. She's taking two languages to AP level, for example. She has skipped some pre-requisites to do all the core STEM APs.

We thought about homeschooling, because she's way beyond the typical level of a high schooler, but she has friends at this high school. MCPS serves her social needs.

My other kids are not like this, and were satisfactorily challenged by their AP classes and their normal academic tracks. But sometimes, you get a kid like my daughter, and just like for students with special needs, it becomes really worthwhile to fight for a different academic track. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that she does have special needs... of a different sort, that's all.

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Then you should have had her apply to magnet or do dual enrollment.   [/quote]

DP: There aren't enough slots in magnets.  You'd probably have to cosa but we were told no.  MC is impossible due to activities and transportation and online conflicts with other classes and activities.

MCPS should align the HS schedules and offer it virtually if they will not at each school.

A typical path could be:

6th: Algebra
7th: Geometry
8th: Algebra 2
9th: Precalculus
10th: Calc AB or BC
11: Calc BC or MV
12: Linear Algebra or Statistics or something else

Also, with the inequity in MCPS, they will bus some kids to a different school for math, but not others.  I've heard them bus 1-2 kids for other schools but they refused to bus mine.

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With the new “integrated math” that state education office just approved, will geometry be replaced with integrated math, or Algebra 1+geometry be replaced together with 2-yr of this IM course? I’m very confused as MCPS websites have inconsistent quotes from place to place.[/quote]

Integrated Algebra 1 & 2 will cover much of current Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2 content.  Where they put the missing bits (Trigonometry, some Stats, etc.) may depend on the track chosen afterwards.

There will be 4 post-Algebra tracks, and not all would require that then-missing content to have been learned.  The one which would would be the path to/past Calculus that many MCPS students would expect to take, especially those more academically inclined and/or STEM-focused.  Whether they add that material to a PreCalc class or create a buffer course (or both, with an accelerated PreCalc+ option for those not intending to slow down with the buffer, but the buffer plus standard PreCalc available for those that need it), or whether they arrive at a different solution, is not yet determined.[/quote]

This makes zero sense to skip parts to speed things up.  You offer Algebra in 6/7 but there is no point to speeding it up when a bulk of the schools don't offer MV, or anything beyond BC so what happens to these kids.

If you offer it in 7th, kids can still take MV in 12th.[/quote]

They skip those parts because they deemed them not necessary to all 4 of the later paths, and because students less attuned to Math found that content particularly difficult.  I might disagree with the presumed finding that these concepts don't need to be a part of the curricular standard presented by the state to the county schools systems, but there it is -- water under the bridge at this point.  I agree that MCPS and other MD school systems would need to offer MVC as a standard, rather than only at select schools, or, alternately, guarantee admission to a magnet program offering it to any who would need such access, given their prior path.[/quote]

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