<p>I am currently set on a track to take either pre-calculus junior year and AB Calc senior year or probability & statistics junior year and AP Stats senior year. Math has been simple for me thus far, as I've earned an A in both Algebra I & II hon. and a B in geometry. </p>
<p>I am considering doubling my courses and taking both pre-calc and probability & statistics next year. Is this a dumb idea? Am I over-burdening myself? Has anyone ever heard of this being done before? I'm wondering if this will even provide me with an advantage or not.</p>
<p>FortunateFiasco no you are not dumb and this is not something unheard of. you can definitely double up on math. i would suggest that if you are good or i’d say comfortable with math then you can do precalc and AP stat together your junior year. (i’m assuming you’re a sophomore) i am currently doing that as a junior and i am also doubling up my sciences with chem and physics. i wouldn’t recommend you taking prob and stats because that is basically ap stat. and if you are college bound then do ap stat, its not that hard of a class. and then you can do ap calc ab or bc your senior year. by the way what math are you taking this year?</p>
<p>AP Stats isn’t that tough, and you don’t need a whole lot of pre-calculus (deriving all the formulas requires lots of calculus though).</p>
<p>I agree with jay1412, might as well take pre-calculus and AP Stats. I doubled up my math classes in senior year and took AP Stats, multi-variable calculus.</p>
<p>Jay1412, yes I am a sophomore, sorry I didn’t put that in the original post. I am definitely college bound so I’ll consider that then. This year I’m taking a class called “Analysis of Functions” which is primarily trigonometry as far as I’ve been told. </p>
<p>Rspence, do you mean I might need calculus for AP Stat?</p>
<p>You don’t need calculus for AP Stats. I’m just saying that lots of the formulas (area under the normal curve, coefficients for least squares regression) are derived using calculus. Your teacher will probably skip the derivations though…</p>
<p>My son is going to take Pre Calc at a community college this summer, then Calculus and AP Stats during his Junior Year, then Calc 2 in the Fall of his Senior Year, Calc 3 in the Winter of his Senior Year (both at a community college). I believe our school only allows AP stats after precalc. The reason for him doing this is because he wants to double major in college and this would allow him to have some math credits coming in to make a double major possible. My daughter has a friend at school who did the aforementioned plan and it worked well for him!</p>
<p>That’s good that your son is making the most out of his time and saving time/money in college. After speaking with multiple math teachers and guidance counselors about this subject, I’m certain I’ll be taking this route as well.</p>
<p>I don’t think that level of statistics/probability will use any calculus. Go for both.</p>
<p>Why not go straight into calculus? I don’t know how the process works but I went straight into calculus after high school. It was easily understandable without precalculus knowledge (I didn’t have any).</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement, ijamjl. As far as that goes, I’m almost certain pre-calculus is a prerequisite for calculus at my school. Although I haven’t encountered any math class that has “stumped” me as of yet, I still want to be cautious and not underestimate anything. By any chance, do you know whether the calculus you went into at the time was AB or BC ?</p>
<p>Well, I’m talking about calculus when I went to college. From my understanding, AB is similar to that of Calc I and BC is to Calc II. I never took AP Calc in high school, although I wish I could.</p>
<p>Precalculus should be a breeze since you have a good attitude toward math already.</p>