Middle School Education In The Us

Now you are talking like a manager. : ) Yes, it is technically doable. But, in the nature of discussion that takes place on such topic, an index is not feasible. In fact, providing an index might make parent not read some material that would help him/her.

 

Middle Schoolers and Mathematics

Per @Rihana'S request. My teaching knowledge is limited to the maths tuitions I took during college to help with pocket money, so please take it with a heap of salt.

Ideally, the teaching relationship with the child should be something like mentoring. After the basics are taught, the child should try to problem solve and find ways to think and come up with solutions. Initially, in a haste to teach her everything, I over did it. I had to learn to scale back starting in the fifth grade.
I think a lot depends on the child and how much of a help she needs and also the teachers. My daughter did well when the teachers were phenomenal and touched upon all the basics even if all but two kids already knew it all from tutoring. Sometimes we just have to supplement at home. I remember she came out of the 8th grade knowing applications very well but the basics weren't good. I did go back and re-work on some basics from MS this year(thanks to the advice of an ILite).
I generally buy a couple of text books online for the year and go through them when I find the time. The textbooks have a lot of self work questions beginning at an easy level and working up to advanced questions. Based on this I would make work sheets for her(copy questions from here and make worksheets). Do start in summer and do the basic ground work for the first semester of school. I usually let her lounge around and play club all summer long and then come fall it's all haywire when the teacher isn't cutting it.
There are parents who save their kids worksheets and text book etc. It's very helpful to get the worksheets from school but if you don't find any then just create some. I would also google and get a ton of worksheets to work with her. Most worksheets for math topics without solutions can be found free online.
The more they practice and make errors and fix it themselves, the better they get.
I have limited my working with her to just help when she gets stuck but I think it might be better to have some basics covered. This summer I plan to redo some basics again. I also have to teach comp sc this summer. Let's see how much I accomplish!

 

I glanced at the website. Lots of information there. I don't know how I soon zeroed in on this question and answer:

If I am paying almost $9K annually, I would want my child to learn at least SAT level math at the school as a given. SAT I Math, and SAT subject test Math Level II.

 

True that.

I was thinking it is like a Montessori style but for older kids. Went to Wikipedia, and looks like contrary to my assumption, Montessori way of teaching (learning?) is not only for preschools.

I still think I'd like my child to leave such a high school having learned the levels of math I mentioned rather than with the ability to learn them if/when needed. I consider those as basic necessities for further studies in any area and also to "explore" other subjects in high school. (algebra, geometry, and a little bit of trig. or pre-calc).