Final level of mathematics training was strongly dependent on 9th-grade course enrollment: early tracking into advanced math dramatically raised Calculus completion¶

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q3 i? 44% of students enrolled in Geometry or higher in 9th grade ultimately completed Calculus, versus 4.2% of Algebra 1 students and 1% of Pre-Algebra-or-lower students. → K. Paige Harden 2020

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K. Paige Harden 2020¶

K. Paige Harden, Benjamin W. Domingue, Daniel W. Belsky, Jason D. Boardman, Robert Crosnoe, Margherita Malanchini, Michel Nivard, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob and Kathleen Mullan Harris. (2020). Genetic associations with mathematics tracking and persistence in secondary school. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-020-0060-2

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Descriptive transcript analysis of N = 3,635 Add Health students categorized on a standardized math course sequence (Supplementary Table 2), reported in Results. At 9th grade, 51% were enrolled in Algebra 1, 29% in Pre-Algebra or below, and 20% in Geometry or above. These percentages are descriptive; no inferential test is printed.

"A student's final level of mathematics training was strongly dependent on 9th-grade course enrollment: 44% of those enrolled in Geometry or higher in 9th-grade ultimately completed Calculus, compared to only 4.2% of those enrolled in Algebra 1 and 1% enrolled in Pre-Algebra or lower level math class."

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