So DS10 just finished 5th grade and was in 6th grade math. He was given the chance to take the end-of-seventh grade (seventh grade is prealgebra)test and scored 13 out of 20 on it, missing the last seven problems. The school is recommending he take prealgebra next year rather than algebra, partly because of the scores and partly because the schedule just doesn't work for him to be in 6th grade doing 8th grade math. DS had really been wanting to take algebra because he loves math and is tired of sitting in a class where he already knows most of the material.
So, his options are to just do prealgebra next year, which would be what all of his other math classmates will do (no one is being accelerated). Or we could homeschool him just for math and have him work on the prealgebra concepts he doesn't know and transition into algebra for the rest of the year, with an eye toward eventually moving him back into classroom instruction in a year or two when the schedule is conducive to that.
DS is unsure of which he would choose.
What would you do?
