<p>There are at least a dozen kids at my daughter's HS who will have exhausted the offerings in the math department by senior year. They're generally encouraged to take a community college class next. Are there many (any?) high schools that offer higher level math classes?
(Higher than AP Calc BC)</p>
<p>Our high school offers Multivariable.</p>
<p>Our school only offers AB. (frowny face)</p>
<p>Highest here is AB</p>
<p>Yes, multivariable calculus. Neither of my kids took it, though, even though both planned to major in math-related subjects (computer science for my son; economics for my daughter). My son wasn't accelerated enough to take multivariable calculus in high school, and my daughter wanted to do other things during her senior year.</p>
<p>Shocking as it may seem, my daughter didn't take any math at all in her senior year in high school (after having completed BC Calculus as a junior). There was no requirement that she take another year of math, and she wanted to devote that slot in her schedule to an extra AP course in another subject (economics, which she really liked and is now majoring in in college). Her lack of senior year math didn't seem to faze Cornell, which accepted her Early Decision.</p>
<p>at least yours are encouraged to go to the CC, at my old HS, they would've discouraged you from continuing and just said that the funding is not there so you would have to take distance ed like some online class or a night class or said not to continue...we only require 3 years of math anyway and most students don't go past Alg 2...</p>
<p>Calc AB, Calc BC, AP Stat, Multivariable (Calc III), Differential Equations.</p>
<p>Here are our upper-level offerings: Discrete Math, Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Number Theory and an Independent Study option. We have a couple of freshmen in BC Cal so we need lots of offerings! Oh, and Differential Equations</p>
<p>Beyond Calc BC, it's independent study. When geek_son was a soph in Calc AB, the math teacher asked him to think about picking a class that would prepare him for an AP test. For his interests at the time, he had a choice of Comp Sci or Statistics. He chose Comp Sci. That class may be offered as an elective in the future. If another student in the same position chooses Stats or some other math class, then that student will do independent study and the class may become available afterward. The school is very small and tends to grow its curriculum with its students.</p>
<p>Wow. Youdon't say, is this a private school, or a specialized math high school?</p>
<p>Our county's public HS offers neither precalculus nor calculus. My freshman son, who was allowed to take HS math courses while in middle school, exhausted the local HS math offerings before he ever left middle school. He's having to take math at the local university as a 9th grader. I believe that because of the proximity of the local university, the HS administration declines to offer upper-level courses which it thinks would attract small class sizes.</p>
<p>Both D's private and S's public have a course titled something like "Topics in Mathematics" for those kids who have completed Calc BC as juniors. The ones who are more advanced than that take courses at local colleges.</p>
<p>Ours was Calc AB and my D ran out of all math courses including AP Statistics before senior year. As a CS major at UCLA she's taking plenty more math now though.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Her lack of senior year math didn't seem to faze Cornell, which accepted her Early Decision.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Hard to fault someone for not taking senior math when she's taken Calc BC as a junior...</p>
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That's hard to imagine in this day and age. Is the HS too small to have even a single class - i.e. aren't there at least 20-30 students willing and able to take these courses?</p>
<p>^My thought also, ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad (PS: Would you mind if I abbreviated your name as ucdad?)</p>
<p>Barely. Mathson's year was the first year they did. There were five kids who took a Linear Equations (or was it multi variable? who knows!) course having done Calc BC as juniors. That's mostly because I lobbied to have him skip ahead a year in middle school and two Moms found out about it and I encouraged them to join him. The other two did pre-calc in summer school. They have offered AP Statistics, but not the year Mathson was a senior.</p>
<p>The highest is AP Calc BC. Then again this is an urban inner city public in a state that doesn't fund gifted education seperately
- not Lexington in MA ;)</p>
<p>D2's school has always offered calc BC, stats 1 & 2 , multivariable calc and linear analysis. This year they added 2 more math classes: vector analysis and PDEs (partial differential equations).</p>
<p>The advanced math teacher has a PhD in math from MIT and was a TT prof at Rice before he moved back top his home town for family reasons. His classes are tough, but the kids who do well have had some pretty good success at getting college credit (by petition) for the classes.</p>
<p>Sons HS only had Calc AB. He took BC at community college.
He is a math major now so I guess it all worked out ok.</p>