<p>Our experience, too, is that math placement is very fluid. If anything, the tendency is to place students at the highest level at which they might be able to function, and they have to push back a bit if they want to make certain they aren’t in over their heads. One of my kids learned that lesson the hard way, the other went 5-6 weeks into the first quarter before his teacher and advisor stopped nudging him to move up a level. (And later in the year he was really glad that he had resisted that.)</p>