<p>My school does not offer higher math courses, or an advanced track. I am prepared to take a Geometry course right now, if it were only offered to 9th graders. I am a year or more behind freshman students at boarding school right now.
I normally wouldn't mind taking a freshman class, if it were the only one. But as my school follows the biology-chemistry-physics order, and the schools I am applying to follow the physics-chemistry-biology order, I will ALSO be taking physics with freshman, if I am accepted.
I am thinking about this now because I need to know I can fulfill every academic, as well as social, opportunity, and not be held back in a lower math class because of my previous school.
I am considering taking a summer session course at either the school I am accepted to, or at a local college (Cornell, Ithaca College, Binghamton U, Cortland, or other) for Geometry or Precalculus (? Most of these schools only offer precalc as their lowest-level math course).
Should I do this? Or, IF I get accepted, should i suck it up and take the lower level math course?</p>
<p>Take the course...</p>
<p>I can't find one! My options are applying for the Andover Summer Session specifically, or continue looking for a college that even OFFERS geometry... Most only offer precalculus.
Also, if I'm leaving my family for months at a time, I don't want to leave them for another 5 weeks in the summer. It'd be kind of depressing for me, as my first time away.</p>
<p>O...well Im just gunna take a calculus class at a local community college. Not andover or anything</p>
<p>Here they offer geometry for freshman but you have to take pre-ap math in 7th grade and then algebra in 8th but I didn't so I'm in algebra we take biology in freshman year too (which is horrible) so I decided to just apply as a repeat freshman</p>
<p>I love biology, are you kidding? My mom's a biology teacher, I've maintained a 99% average all year... Love love love it.</p>
<p>me too. im in geometry right now as a 9th grader, im taking algebra 2 and pre calculus this summer so i can be calculus sophomore year</p>
<p>Senay: Where will you be taking the courses? Thanks!</p>
<p>community college or maybe university, i just need to figure out how to do that</p>
<p>Same... We ahve tons of community colleges, but I've emailed Cornell... got family who work there/</p>
<p>I HIGHLY doubt u can take algebra 2 and precal in 1 summer. unless u go to summer school 10 hours a day 7 days a week then maybe.</p>
<p>hmm no, it's not that long. 2 hour classes i think, itll be easy</p>
<p>Do you think summer school/program is a good option?</p>
<p>If you are in Geometry now you can take Algebra II concurrently through a "distance learning" program. The pre-requisite for Algebra II is only Algebra I so it is something to consider. I know John Hopkins CTY offers the course to qualified students. If you didn't sit for the PSAT or SAT (required for CTY), BYU also has a good distance learning program. This option is probably better than trying to cram the course in the summer.</p>
<p>I self study alot.
Like when I go to the gym(ironically I just got back from the gym) I listen to language learning software for French and Italian. I probably spend at least 4 hours a week at the gym, and I noticed that some language softwares only require 100 hours for "proficiency". I actually listen to the lessons probably twice(You don't pick up as much if you are preoccupied and you can't say the stuff outloud). I listened to it in the car, but now I drive... So I pick up even less of the lesson. Try finding some time in your day where you do very little(Maybe like chores? I powerwash the bricks in the back of our house if they have moss and I listen to lessons during that). </p>
<p>I self studied math also, and my teacher advised me on a book. A home schooler was taking the AP exam and he hired my teacher to help him. The "Home school" book was the best book that he had ever seen, because it was "almost as good" as a teacher. According to him... He says the repitition of the material is what drives it into your brain(If you do the homework problems).
Get the book that homeschoolers/self study kids get. Online classes are great... But really books are like 120$(Calc and Stat and Linear Algebra books) and a course is over 3 grand.(Normally)</p>
<p>I work at a learning center as a tutor, and I've worked out a deal where I will teach my stuff in return for lessons with the calc and linear algebra guys. If you are a peer tutor try the same thing?</p>
<p>ive heard of BYU. the community college is right across where i live so im good. :P plus, ive talked my best friends into doing, this is going to be exciting ;)</p>
<p>i need rosetta stone. is it good?</p>
<p>italianboarder- 3 grand? Most online self-study courses I have seen are about 150 per Semester or .5 credit. I definitely agree with you on the book though. If you are going to do an online math course, it is a good idea to supplement the course with a decent book. </p>
<p>Senay- I don't know anyone who has used Rosetta Stone. It looks expensive and from what I hear takes a "memorizing" approach to learning a language. I don't know if you're trying to go ahead in a language, or to begin a new one all together but definitely talk with a foreign language teacher at your school if possible. The problem with programs like Rosetta Stone is that they are not separated into levels like "Spanish I" or "German II". A foreign language teacher should be able to help you out in terms of finding a program that meets the school's needs, as well as yours.</p>
<p>oh okay. isnt the way to learning a new language memorization?</p>
<p>I used to do rosetta stone I'm in spanish 1 now so obviously it didn't work for me it might work for you though I don't know</p>