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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The standard in private school is Algebra 1 in 8th. A few are accelerated to A1 in 7th, but almost none in 6th. Some public school systems are willing to accelerate much more routinely. I'm not sure what the point is -- anyone who needs post-calculus would benefit from taking a more in depth class in college.[/quote] My student did Algebra 1 in 7th and is now doing AP Calc as a junior in HS. Looking back, I would have been fine if she tracked with most of the class and did Algebra 1 in 8th grade. She is not going to go to engineering school or anything like that and I would have been fine if she had an easier track in math for HS. What we also found was that she had to go back and review algebra to prep for the SAT/ACT. This was a disadvantage as there are very few Pre-Calc questions on those tests. She would have been better off if she had Algebra II in her sophomore year so that those concepts were more fresh in her mind for SAT/ACT prep.[/quote]
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