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Of course not. I'd have picked a much shorter name if I'd have known I'd be on this board this much (I had no idea). I just wanted to make it descriptive.</p>
<p>Not a private school, just flexible. Now, I'm not sayinga lot of people TAKE those courses, but they are offered.</p>
<p>AP Calc BC is the highest our sch. goes. Our system will pay (including books) for students to take dual enrollment classes at the CC though.</p>
<p>AP Calc BC is as high as we go here, too.</p>
<p>First year of Multivariable here. Another school from our town sends kids to that class(so the class has like 20+ people), and I will be taking it next year.</p>
<p>My public high school offers up through Calc 3, or multivariable. The kids who exhaust that usually take the bus to the University of Minnesota after/during school to take classes there.</p>
<p>My rather large public high school (senior class: 640, student body: ~2800) only offers through AP Calc AB. I'm currently taking AP Calc at that school and Calc II at the local community college, because AP Calc was too slow for me. I plan on taking linear algebra over the summer--no one else in my class will have any math credits beyond Calc I, and only ~12 will get that.</p>
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<p>Hard to fault someone for not taking senior math when she's taken Calc BC as a junior...
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<p>That was my point.</p>
<p>Taking classes at a community college -- the course of action that high school counselors recommended to several of the students mentioned in this discussion -- is often inconvenient in terms of timing and transportation. If this is the only math option offered to your student, and if another year of math is not required for graduation, the option of not taking math senior tear -- but still maintaining a strong academic schedule, with five or more serious academic courses -- is worth considering. As a practical matter, this usually means taking an extra AP or honors-level social studies or science course instead of math senior year. </p>
<p>If my daughter, who had the option of taking math beyond calculus at her high school, got away with not taking math senior year, I think that those who can only go beyond calculus by attending a community college should certainly be able to get away with it.</p>
<p>ucdad (thanks, LMNOP) - The HS has 1200 students, but in Georgia a student with a 3.0 or better GPA in college prep courses can go to in-state public colleges and universities tuition-free, and the in-state publics don't require pre-cal or calculus for admission. Since almost everyone with a B average in our rural area aspires to stay in-state and take advantage of the free tuition, there is almost no demand for courses above the requirements of the state university system. Likewise, our HS only offers two levels of foreign language, since that's all that the state universities require for admits.</p>
<p>Gadad...interesting. We are North Fulton county....S's public HS of 2800 offers AP Clac BC and AP Stats, but kids can finish AP Calc and then take next level math thru GTech.
It's amazing how different areas of the same state function (not that it's good or bad...i just wish all kids had the same opportunities).</p>
<p>Large public HS in OH offers only up to BC and AP Stats but if needed students can take classes at Columbus State or the local branch of Ohio State U. The curriculum isn't really set up to encourage students to get farther than BC but it has improved over the past 8 years. It's middle school where they start to let the students move faster in math but they really don't encourage it (or schedule well for it). Despite that, DS's class only had 2 students in BC 4 years ago but DD's class has 16 in BC so its only time before they'll move them along faster in middle school.</p>
<p>Our HS offers Multivariable after Calc AB or BC, plus AP Stats for those who want it. Only 5-10 out of 650 seniors are enrolled. However, they do NOT let students take university classes in lieu of multivariable because that would make the enrollment shrink to the point where the school would no longer offer the class.</p>
<p>Yes. Our school offers two levels of AP Calculus (Calculus AB and Calculus BC) along with Multivariable Calculus. AP Statistics is also offered, but I wouldn't consider that to be "above" calculus; it's just another track that a student can take for math.</p>
<p>rjm - Ironically, our area's lack of resources can actually translate into great opportunities. Since the local HS doesn't offer that much, our kids have all gotten state-funded access to the coursework of the in-town university - my two Ds each took > 30 hours of university coursework to earn their HS diplomas. And I believe that by going out of their way to find opportunities in a resource-poor environment, the two of them created admissions hooks that led them both to remarkable college opportunities.</p>
<p>My kids go to a high ranked public high school. About 350 kids per grade. They offer through Calc BC. Ever year or two, they also offer AP Stat. So, when AP Stat was offered, I had my S take AP Stat rather than Pre-Calc in his sophomore year. He was then on track to take Calc BC in his Senior year.</p>
<p>If a kid has exhausted his options, the school district will pay for the kid to take a class at a local college. However, scheduling becomes a real pain.</p>
<p>AP computer programming is also offered, but I hear that some schools don't consider that a math class.</p>
<p>"If a kid has exhausted his options, the school district will pay for the kid to take a class at a local college. However, scheduling becomes a real pain."</p>
<p>True - paying for it is something the school district will do; going out of their way to make it logistically convenient is not.</p>
<p>Our district specifically tells you that they will not pay anything towards any course at a university or community college. Anything outside of the curriculum is on your own dime.</p>
<p>lol, another ga perspective, our high school offers through Calculus AB and about once every 5 years BC. The kids that take AB as a junior usually will go to the local public college and continue to take calculus there (paid for by Early Hope), so that when they get to GaTech they have met the calculus requirement! (Although our high school does pretty well with calculus at Tech.)</p>
<p>We are south of Macon.</p>
<p>Our WA state high school offered AP Calc AB, BC and AP Stat. Son1 took BC in sophomore year, Stat in junior year, and took Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calc and Differential Equations at the local community college senior year (all 1 quarter courses). He's now a math major in college, and I think continuing on to more advanced math at the community college was a great choice for him. Fortunately, WA funds this through Running Start and it was very low cost for us. Scheduling can be a pain, though. Most courses were late afternoon or evening as I remember. But that was also good prep for college.</p>
<p>Lots of students take calculus before twelfth grade, as the Mathematical Association of America has discovered. </p>
<p>David</a> Bressoud's Launchings from the CUPM Curriculum Guide </p>
<p>Young people in my state can do dual enrollment at local colleges on the state's dime for eleventh and twelfth grade, and that's how some of those students find more challenging classes. A few local high schools offer their own postcalculus math courses too.</p>