Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Learning Environments Skipping a year of math in junior high?

From your description Common Core 2/3 should be the completion of junior high math. Integrated I would be a typical Freshman class which covers part of what used to be Algebra, part of what used to be Geometry. (And the first few chapter of Algebra would have been covered in the jr high class) I would think a gifted math kid, who's taken a 5 week Algebra & 5 week Geometry class would be fine skipping Integrated I. This doesn't put your son any farther along in math than my son who took Algebra I in 7th & H. Geometry in 8th.

The point of Integrated Math is to teach math in a more logical manner. The old way of Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II wasn't particularly designed. The point is more for the struggling/average math student whom is make a lot of sense to give a good basic grounding in algebra & geometry before moving on to harder topics.