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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has been in Aops program for several years now. We moved online (beast academy) in 5th grade because we couldn’t juggle sending him in person with his travel sports. I  signed him up for Aops virtual prealgebra last week and now I’m not sure whether to move him to algebra. I’m leaning towards keeping him in prealgebra since the Aops curriculum is much more challenging and it hopefully will fill any gaps he may have with skipping prealgebra at school. [/quote]

Our DC just completed AoPS Prealgebra B and plan to accept Algebra 1 at our school (we got the letter for our DC). I wouldn’t say that AoPS Prealgebra A and B are prerequisites for Algebra that will be taught at FCPS. If you’ve been doing Beast Academy and AoPS and are trying to figure out where your DC stands, I would compare the curriculums. AoPS is usually ahead of the content, so I wouldn’t be surprised if AoPS PreAlgebra A and B lined up with FCPS Algebra 1.

I could be wrong though and plan to check this myself before we make a decision whether DC should participate at our school’s pilot.

I agree with previous posters that the most dangerous part of this move is not whether the selected kids can handle Algebra 1, but whether they will miss learning other important foundational concepts. ~OP[/quote]

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