Some eighth graders
take elementary algebra before they go to high school.
Not exact matches
All students at KIPP study
elementary algebra, which many students do not
take until ninth grade.
After four semesters in college, 60 percent had, compared to 37 percent of students placed in the remedial
elementary algebra class and 33 percent of students who
took remedial
elementary algebra with workshops (Figure 3).
Even if we were to assume that all fall students who pass
elementary algebra are retained for the spring, and that all such students
take statistics that spring, the probability of completing statistics within two semesters is still only 25 percent.
Any participant who did not pass his or her class had to re-enroll in traditional remedial
elementary algebra and pass it before
taking any college - level quantitative courses.
The positive effect of
taking statistics (relative to remedial
elementary algebra without workshops) was similar across students with a wide range of placement test scores (Figure 2).
Equally intriguing are the college and career readiness indicators at the
elementary and middle school levels: • % of students
taking Algebra I • % of students chronically absent (greater than 10 % of the year)