California's Math Pipeline: The Grade 7 Pivot Point

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For students to be career- and college-ready when they complete high school, they must build a strong base of mathematics knowledge. The end of 7th grade provides an important moment to assess how prepared California's students are to succeed in the more advanced math curriculum that starts with algebra.

California's 1997 academic content standards in mathematics outline the stepping stones to algebra, and the Grade 7 Mathematics California Standards Test (CST) provides a benchmark measure of students' readiness.

In addition, 7th grade is the point where students' math course-taking paths clearly begin to diverge:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 11, 2011 1:48 AM
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