Of course we love seventh grade math! Seventh grade math is full with practical, real-world skills like percent and number sense, as well as critical thinking about the relationship between objects using similarity and scale. In addition, it is an important time to prepare for Algebra I and the high school and college level math courses that follow. Students, get ready! Algebra I is usually taken in the ninth grade but seventh grade students have the opportunity to place into Algebra I for their eighth grade year with a qualifying score on a placement exam taken in late spring.