Pour in Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Looking for suggestions for my DD (6th) - math seems to come naturally to her. I'm wondering what to do for 6th grade - last year she did Singapore 6 and Saxon 7/6. For this coming year I'm considering jumping her right into Jacobs Algebra w Dr Callahan. Has anyone else done this without doing Saxon 8/7 or some other pre-algebra course first? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 We went from MUS Zeta to Jacobs Algebra...the first time. We did the first half of the Jacobs Algebra book. The after a bit of thrashing around, my son did the first half of Saxon 8/7 and then came back to Jacobs Algebra. He went through what he had done before in Jacobs (it was the first 6 or so chapters) and then finished the book with no problem (in fact, the got better and better as he went on). I should mention that he was accelerated from 2nd to 4th grade in math and missed some things. Saxon 8/7 was a good reset. My advice would be to jump into Jacobs Algebra but to keep an eye on how things are going and make adjustments as needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie of KY Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 I have gone from Singapore math to AoPS with all my kids. Went directly to algebra with my oldest and then SM to AoPS prealgebra with my next two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pour in Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share Posted July 31, 2017 Thank you EKS for that good advice - I hadn't thought of starting and reevaluating as need be :thumbup: and Julie of KY thanks too, that makes me think it is reasonable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal_Bear Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 The first 1/3 of Jacobs is pretty much pre-algebra. So I vote go for it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pour in Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share Posted July 31, 2017 Thank you calbear! that's helpful :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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