Does your child's school offer math past calculus?

<p>Our HS offers Calc AB and AP Stat and for the first time this year Calc BC. My 11th grade son took precalc last year and then Calc BC this year. The school board did not want him or another student to do this in 11th grade as that meant they would exhaust all the HS has to offer. Both students are excelling in BC without having taken BC. I am glad the teacher lobbied on their behalf. Now we are just trying to figure out what to do next year. With EC's it makes it very hard to take a class at local college......</p>

<p>During junior and senior years, S1 took AP Stat (calc-based, compressed into one semester), MV, DiffEq, Discrete, Lin Alg, Complex Analysis and a proof-based math class, all at his HS. There was an advanced geometry course (pre-req: MV/DiffEq) that he couldn't get into due to schedule conflicts. He was able to place directly into Analysis when he got to college, largely on the strength of the preparation he had with proofs.</p>

<p>Public science/math HS program.</p>

<p>When my math kid was in school AP Calc was the highest level offered. More advanced kids took classes at the local U, some beginning sophomore year, with the school providing transportation and the parents footing the bill. Since then I believe they have started offering MV and (maybe) DiffEq.</p>

<p>gadad,
I went to HS in Georgia (not Atlanta) and the name of the game then (and now, in many places) continues to be "make your own opportunities." I have two nieces in HS there now and that was the message we kept emphasizing w/them over winter break. I took two AP courses self-study at my HS, but the school (and I) didn't know that I could take the exams. Oh well -- got out of the courses anyway via ACH (now SAT-II ) and placement exams.</p>

<p>A good friend of S1's took advanced math courses for two years at Ga Tech, which worked out quite well for him.</p>

<p>I also know of folks (on CC and off) who have been able to get advanced math via Stanford EPGY, JHU's CTY and other online math programs. In some cases, the school even pays for it.</p>

<p>Sons' schools offered Calculus, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Linear Algebra, AP statistics, Differential Equations, and a math course that I can't remember that kids take in place of Calculus but is also advanced.</p>

<p>Discrete Mathematics is the other course.</p>

<p>Calc II and Linear Algebra/Discrete Math</p>

<p>Lysnoir, is the Linear Algebra/Discrete Math one course? I'm surprised that Calc 3 or BC Calc is not offered but Linear Algebra is as it usually follows Calc 3 in sequence.</p>

<p>Short answer -- no.</p>

<p>We have a magnet program. the calc I class for the school is for calc AB, but the calc I class for the magnet program is for calc BC and covers all calc AB stuff. the calc II class comes next, which is supposed to be the first semester of second year calculus in college. then, we have a course that teaches linear algebra first sememster and discret math second semester</p>

<p>Ok, I get it. It must cover more advanced topics in Discrete Mathematics than the course my sons' school does.</p>

<p>also, the linear algebra/discrete math class typically has seven people per year, so we cover information pretty quickly</p>

<p>We have Calc AB & BC, and Multivariable.</p>

<p>We also have AP Computer Science, followed by Advanced Topics in Computer Science, which you can take more than once. My guys were in CS heaven.</p>