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When I was in Junior High and High School, Algebra I was the standard math course for 9th grade. Things are changing. Many states have moved towards making Algebra I required for 8th grade students. If one examines the curriculum currently taught in 6th, 7th and 8th grade math courses, it becomes evident that nearly all the material is recycled each year. World-wide, the US keeps fairly good pace with the rest of the world in mathematics up to the 5th grade. It is during the Junior High years that we fall miserably behind the other developed countries. One significant contributor to this is the fact that our curriculum stops presenting anything substantially new after 5th grade. We have implemented an Advanced Math class at Sage Valley to address any possible missed concepts for the Junior High years and to prepare students to take Algebra I. The typical 7th grade advanced math student is ready for Algebra I. Certainly many 8th graders are ready for this course. Students who take Advanced Math in 6th grade and Algebra I in 7th grade are eligible to take Geometry in the 8th grade. This makes it possible for them to take Algebra II or College Algebra at the high school their freshman year. The sophomore year can then be utilized to take PreCalculus and the Junior and Senior years are available for Calculus I, Calculus II and/or College Statistics. It is quite possible for the advanced student to graduate college with a year and a half worth of college mathematics credit already cleared. It is our hope at Sage to promote the advancement of math students at whatever pace they are ready to mange. The Geometry curriculum consists of two-dimensional geometry including points, lines, rays, segments, planes, polygons, circles and arcs. It also deals with three-dimensional geometry with shapes such as prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, spheres and some of the platonic solids. Skills are built in the use of compass and straight-edge to construct geometric shapes. Mathematical logic is heavily addressed and the creation of simple proofs is a significant goal of the course. The course ends with a presentation of basic trigonometry including the law of sines and the law of cosines. Throughout the course, care is taken to continually review Algebra skills, ensuring that transition into Algebra II is fluid. |
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