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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they're in compacted math in 5th grade, then there's no difference.  If they were in the regular math track, then they would do math 6, then IM in 7th grade, then algebra 1 in 8th grade (for high school credit).  The old version had math 6, math 7, then math 8, and algebra 1 would be done in 9th grade.  See page 19 of this PDF from Lee MS:  https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/leems/news/5th%20Grade%20Parent%20Meeting.pptx.pdf[/quote]

Lee MS has a different path now, according to the presentation given to rising 6th graders this year.  That PPT is from January 2017, before the IM and Applied IM class placement was enforced.  Now, the basic path for students who took regular math 5 is math 6, IM 7, Algebra I, then geometry in 9th.  Compacted math 5/6 students will start IM 6, then Algebra I, then Geometry, then Algebra II in 9th (although that is sometimes replaced with pre-calculus or functions, as in the Blair SMAC magnet).  Some advanced 6th graders were allowed to start in Algebra I with the 7th graders, but now they have the magnet-level math and that is generally not being allowed anymore (except at Eastern where they have no magnet-level math class and they start all advanced 6th graders in Algebra I).[/quote]

How common is this at Eastern? Do most of the humanities magnet kids end up doing Algebra 1 in 6th grade?[/quote]

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