<p>The elimination of AP CS AB is truly a big loss. Coming from a person who took it this year.</p>
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<p>That would be in the beginning, but look at it from a historical perspective. A lot of students don’t take ab and jump straight to bc. Unless bc is an explicit pre-requisite to mvc, eventually kids will go straight into that, and having to learn 3 semesters of math in 1 or 2 semesters is a daunting task.</p>
<p>Also, you misinterpreted what I wrote. I said that if they exam were proof-based, then a lot of kids would fail. Testing MVC how they test ab/bc, however, would not reflect the depth of knowledge that a student should have for the course.</p>
<p>quadonfait, what you said sounds so familiar… did u copy what someone said and pasted?</p>
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<p>oops, that was a quote. okay. my bad</p>
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<p>An0maly, there are a lot of AP tests that don’t cover the amount of information that a student should learn. Unless you’ve take AP Art History, you don’t understand how little a test can cover. In AP Art History, you memorize hundreds upon hundreds of images, nearing 1000. But of course all of these can’t be tested. Nonetheless the classes still cover the information. So even if it’s impossible for the test to show that the student has learned all of the information s/he should have, the student does learn that info in class and the student’s class grade shows whether or not s/he understands.
But I do sort of think that APMVC is a bad idea. I skipped from 10th grade pre-calc to 11th grade AP BC, so it would be nice to not have to go to UCinci to take multivariable, but it just seems like a bad idea.</p>
<p>So when will we know the “new” AP’s that are going to be offered?</p>
<p>African-American Studies? Really? That’s actually kind of intriguing…</p>
<p>I took Multivar fall semester this year.</p>
<p>It’s an extension of BC calc into three dimensions. That’s virutallly it. It’s not extremely difficult at all.</p>
<p>My son was warned last year that AP CS AB was vanishing and therefore also took it this year. It was important for him since he learned the material outside of high school and needs to show mastery to move forward to college level CS this coming year. But I can well understand cutting it. It’s a labor-intensive test to develop and grade.
I would be surprised if there was a AP MVC - it would seem to me that the numbers would be very small - and from what I know, most kids doing math at that level take it at a college/university anyway.
A historical question - was there ever an AP Classical Greek? Given the roots of AP , it would seem likely, but I can’t find any information along these lines.
(I see Classical Greek having a bit of a resurgence in high school these days, but I’m sure the numbers are still very low indeed.)</p>
<p>I heard from my AP physics teacher that Physics B is going to get broken up into Physics 1 and Physics 2. </p>
<p>Physics C will stay as is. Allegedly, this is going to happen two years from now, mainly because the scope of Physics B is too broad.</p>
<p>I was told that since CompSci AB is being removed, CompSci A is essentially going to become AB. Like the material will be a majority of the AB material</p>
<p>The material already is a majority of the AB material. The only new things on AB are stacks, queues, trees, and collections pretty much.</p>