Is it really worth taking Honors Pre Cal next Spring, and Honors Algebra 2 all of next year, so that I will be able to take AP Stats my junior year and Honors or AP Calculus AB my senior year? Thanks!
I don’t understand your progression? You’re supposed to take Algebra 2 before Pre-Calc and there should be a very good reason to take those two online/self-paced/not in school. A strong base in your prior math classes is imperative for excelling in any post-high school level classes. Also, I have heard that you should take Calculus AB/BC right after Pre-Calc so that you don’t forget any important math concepts.
You heard correctly. Take calc after pre-calc. Take stats after calc, or concurrently with calc.
AP stats really doesn’t contain anything related to pre-calc, take it concurrently if you can. However, that’s not the main problem here. The problem I see with only taking stats junior year and waiting an extra year to take AB/BC is that BC builds upon pre-calc and you’re gonna have a hard time picking up as fast as the BC curriculum goes. If you’re completely out of options to take stats without taking BC the year after pre-calc, take stats senior year.
your progression should be: Algebra2H-> precalc-> calc (either AB-> BC, or AB-> stats?)
What’s the difference between Honors Calculus and AP Calculus AB?
There’s no such thing as Honors Calculus. After Pre-Calculus, you can choose to continue you math progression by taking AP Calculus AB or BC, if you feel that you can handle it.
@pinklinks OP’s school could have an honors calculus class; my school does.
Yes, apparently there is such thing as honors calculus, but not in our school. AB calculus is already calculus lite since it covers only calc1 whereas BC calculus covers calc1 and calc2, often in the same instructional time. So I don’t really get the point of calculus below AB, but it does exist. One would hope that students who were accelerated in high school to the level of taking calculus would be prepared at least for AB calculus.
Just because the HS with which you are familiar does not have Honors Calculus does not mean the some of the other 30,000 HS’s in the US don’t offer it.
@Shanban1607 @mathyone @skieurope Sorry about that. I’ve never heard of it, so I thought it didn’t exist. My bad.
To answer OP’s question, Honors Calc is probably for students that feel that they aren’t ready for college-level math. I think it might be better to ask your counselor this - I sifted through CC archives and Yahoo for any responses differentiating Honors Calc and AP Calc and I couldn’t find anything worthwhile. Choose the one that you feel you can be best successful in.