I'm not entirely sure about 6th grade because DS skipped it, but they've recently changed it for the kids identified as gifted in math, and the high achievers in math, anyway.

For those gifted and high achieving kids:

6th: 6th/7th grade accelerated math (pre-algebra)
7th: 7th/8th grade accelerated math (pre-algebra, beginning algebra, with hints of geometry but still related to algebra)
8th: Integrated Math I or high school math (from what I can gather it's simply algebra).

For kids not accelerated I think they do pre-algebra until the end of 8th grade.

in 5th grade, ds's teacher spent most of the year teaching fractions and division, the repetition of which had long-lasting negative affects on our ds and nearly turned him off from math forever.


Last edited by KADmom; 09/16/14 07:10 AM.