I go to a private school and i want to go to a public school again. I am in middle school. School Math standards for private schools in california is 6th – regular math 7th- Math07 or pre algebra 8th- pre algebra or algebra. my teacher says that public schools in california use this too. I don’t believe this because my cousin go’s to a public middle school and is in 6th grade and her math class is pre algebra. so please answer
It depends on your level of mathematics, there is a special placement exam you must take, and if you score high enough, you will be placed into that high of a class, usually it goes 6th Math, 7th Math, and 8th would go pre algebra, unless your placement allows you to take pre algebra earlier, in which case you skip 6 and 7 and are able to take pre algebra.
September 26th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
It depends on your level of mathematics, there is a special placement exam you must take, and if you score high enough, you will be placed into that high of a class, usually it goes 6th Math, 7th Math, and 8th would go pre algebra, unless your placement allows you to take pre algebra earlier, in which case you skip 6 and 7 and are able to take pre algebra.
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I took that placement, I believe I took Pre-Algebra in 7th, and Algebra in 8th.
September 26th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/mathstandard.pdf
Link to California public school content standards. Click on your grade.
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September 26th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
The normal organization is 6th grade – regular math (But at least for me, 6th grade was in elementary school), 7th grade – harder regular math, 8th grade – pre-algebra.
But you’ll also find schools that do 6th grade – harder regular math, 7th grade – pre-algebra, 8th grade – Algebra I. In some schools this is the advanced curriculum.
Since your cousin is advanced, she’s taking pre-algebra in 6th grade. I pretty much did that, but I was in elementary school for 6th grade, so it was just called "math," though I was using a book for 7th and 8th graders, and in 7th grade I just started algebra.
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