Looking back through my files, my kids had qualifying score for Algebra through MAP testing without IMHO the skill base. But they had those qualifying scores much earlier than normal.grades 5-6-7-8 get compressed in various ways at various school. My daughter skipped fourth grade math and entered the accelerated track and got to 5th grade doing the 6th grade work and it was slow. She worked through both a prealgebra book and an algebra book and then took a self paced CTY class in prealgebra. She is still enrolled in math at school because I can’t be bothered to fight with them anymore. We are trying to change schools. She needed those foundational books to be able to work at the CTY level. She loves math but has never really had a rigorous teacher.
But she really loves the CTY. It is awesome. Fast rigorous. Easy for her to manage her time by being online.
