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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people have posted that if your child doesn’t get above 95 percentile in the IAAT they shouldn’t bother with Alegbra in grade 7. My child got a 93. They want to do Algebra if they get a pass advanced in SOL but should I steer them towards math 7 honors? [/quote]

The cutoff is 91%.

If your kid can quickly understand concepts, they will do fine. You have to understand it is a high school course. Homework and review are needed to get an A.[/quote]

Please. Algebra is not a high school course, the concepts are perfectly within the grasp of motivated middle school students. Heck, I took it in 8th grade in a tiny little town in a remote state 30 years back. This "Oh no, it's a high school course" attitude is just fear mongering.

Maybe it was a high school course back in the 50s when kids did not have the resources of today, and when it was actually taught rigorously with plenty of problems to be solved. But have you taken a look at the current course? It most definitely is tailored for middle school students, it's fairly watered down version. They *still* haven't learned how to factor quadratics yet in Alg 7th Honors, and it's the 4th quarter, for goodness sake!

[b]The main reason that algebra is challenging for many kids, is because they had literally 0 homework in elementary school and have to adjust to actually practicing doing work[/b]. It's not because it's some mythical "high school" course and thus is somehow beyond the reach of 7th and 8th graders.[/quote]

At our MS, they double the difficulty by also having no homework for math class and very little practice in class.  It is a tough course (and SBG doesn't help) but not necessarily because it's "a high school course".  [/quote]

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