<p>calico & run2flyfree-- I’m not quite sure how to describe how good I am at math… I am a VERY fast learner and no matter what class I seem to be in it is always moving too slow. I’m great at explaining concepts to other people. I talked to my math teacher and she thinks I could probably learn most of precalculus in a couple of months if I had a textbook and worked with my dad.
I hate the way math classes are structured; I tend to do maybe a quarter of the homework and get A’s or A-'s by the end of the year (I’m doing better this year, though, because of the way Algebra 2 is structured).
I think I took the USAMO for fun a little while ago but didn’t do too well. I applied to HCSSiM and was neither accepted nor rejected. I’ve been talking with the director and it looks like I’ll probably go NEXT summer after I’ve learned precalc.</p>
<p>nemom – it is quite common in my school to finish the high school math curriculum and then take a college course senior year. We are very near some excellent colleges. I would check with my guidance counselor and all that before skipping, of course.</p>