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Students in the US are usually about 14 years old when they start 9th
grade. In some towns that is the first year (freshman) of high school. In other places that is the last year of middle school. Jan Lennie wrote: from a UK point of view, I'm not really sure of your grade system but when I started in seniors at the age of 11 we started algebra . -- Brenda "Sometimes I'd sit and gaze for days through sleepless dreams all alone and trapped in time." Tommy Shaw |
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In article , Ericka Kammerer
writes: We had a kid take an AP Calculus exam in 6th grade in my kids' school (obviously, quite an exception, and he had to take his math electives outside the school ;-) The year I was champion of my District Math League, I lost the County title to a 12-year-old sophomore at the Catholic school. Sister Mathematica was privately tutoring him in advanced calc, because he'd already passed the AP test. Losing by one lousy point to Junior Einstein didn't hurt, because I'd beat everyone else by a mile. I actually felt sorry for the poor little geek. He had a trophy, but no friends. -- Finished 12/14/03 -- Mermaid (Dimensions) WIP: Fireman's Prayer, Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe Paralegal - Writer - Editor - Researcher http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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In article , Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
writes: So, is it the times, or the size of the school, or the expectations of the community served? (or all three?) What's your experience? Our school offered algebra in 8th grade to those students sufficiently advanced that they would have been bored in regular 8th grade math. NY State required that you pass one year of high school math in order to graduate. Preferably, that would have been Algebra, but if you'd tried twice and failed twice, you took a one-year class (Algebra A) covering only the first half the material, and if you failed that, you took what the teachers called Dummy Math, where, essentially, you were taught to recognize the On switch and the + sign on your calculator. Math League assumed that 9th graders would be taking Algebra, 10th graders Geometry, 11th graders Trig, and questions were distributed accordingly. We always knew that Question 2 and Question 5 would be Geometry, so we could rotate our 9th graders out and have only competitors who knew something about Geometry. I assume that this progression was a statewide standard. I know it was the standard for every school in our Math League District. -- Finished 12/14/03 -- Mermaid (Dimensions) WIP: Fireman's Prayer, Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe Paralegal - Writer - Editor - Researcher http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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I'm 25 and majored in physics in college. Most of my friends from the
US did a standard course of Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry & Precalculus, and Calculus from 8th through 12th grade. Some people took AP Calculus classes, some people took IB classes (International Baccalaureate, which placed them another semester ahead, straight into multivariable calculus). I currently tutor high school students for SAT prep in the Boston area, and the course load is much the same, although the tracking is set back a year for the lower level classes. Meredith Karen C - California wrote: In article , Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen writes: So, is it the times, or the size of the school, or the expectations of the community served? (or all three?) What's your experience? Our school offered algebra in 8th grade to those students sufficiently advanced that they would have been bored in regular 8th grade math. NY State required that you pass one year of high school math in order to graduate. Preferably, that would have been Algebra, but if you'd tried twice and failed twice, you took a one-year class (Algebra A) covering only the first half the material, and if you failed that, you took what the teachers called Dummy Math, where, essentially, you were taught to recognize the On switch and the + sign on your calculator. Math League assumed that 9th graders would be taking Algebra, 10th graders Geometry, 11th graders Trig, and questions were distributed accordingly. We always knew that Question 2 and Question 5 would be Geometry, so we could rotate our 9th graders out and have only competitors who knew something about Geometry. I assume that this progression was a statewide standard. I know it was the standard for every school in our Math League District. |
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I have snipped a bit from my daughter's email. She is 41, and her son starts
HS this fall (her BS was in Math and MS in Computer Science, for background). I thought it might be of interest since that is the cyrrent topic here. The school is in maryland. Did I mention Mike is all signed up for High School? It really hit me hard when I think of him going to High School - I don't know where the time has gone... here he is signing up for algebra, wanting to get thru Calculus (and preferably college credit) by College age, wanting to take Latin, but not having enough schedule time. They get into all sorts of things like Computer programming, Economics, Accounting, Drafting, etc. The list is huge! It seems more like college than HS to me. Gillian Florida "JoyceG in WA" wrote in message ... In this area (Puget Sound, Washington State) the math curriculum varies from district to district. My three children are in elementary, middle and high school. An "integrated" math program starts in middle school, and if you do well in math you can actually complete high school math credits in eigth grade by taking "Integrated I" math. My daughter is in 10th grade taking "Integrated III" which actually has a lot of trig and calculus components. It is totally different from the way I studied math in MA in the 70's. The "Integrated" program seems to skip around a lot, IMO, but does include algebra, geometry, calculus and trig components as you move through the program. As with any math program, however, the big difference in my children has been the *teacher* versus the math program itself. A good math teacher is a treasure, and I find there aren't as many of them around as there should be! -JoyceG in WA Sue asked: That's how it was in my school, too. What I'm wondering is, what that because I went to a small public school system that was not entirely college-oriented, or because of the times? (late 60s- early 70s). However, when I started at university, I realized that a lot of other people had had a lot more high-level courses than were offered in my high school. Our math track was: Algebra I (grade 9)/ Geometry (grade 10)/ Algebra II (grade 11)/ trig/pre-calc (grade 12; 1/2 year each, one small class of the most academically "select" kids, mostly male). I'm curious, because DS was in GT math starting in middle school and was in calc III by the time he was a HS senior. DD's math track is similar to what mine used to be, but she's at a different school - an arts magnet, unlike the academic pressure-cooker that is the local public high school that DS went to. So, is it the times, or the size of the school, or the expectations of the community served? (or all three?) What's your experience? Sue (who always *loved* algebra) |
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