A caution for the 6th math or prealgebra placements. Be aware of where your district is in adopting common core math standards. In our district, all kids coming out of both ordinary 7th grade math *and * prealgebra are being placed in 8th grade math, without an option to go into algebra.
Hopefully, other districts won't put this bizarre transition into place, but instead will do something more rational. However, if this were going to be the process in place for my kid, I'd consider carefully the impacts in the following year of placing my child in prealgebra.
