High School Class of 2019

Wait, what’d I do?

@iflycuzican, once your done with the 4 main levels of the math sequences. 110-120-130-210-220-230-31X(pre-calculus)-320-330(Calculus)-410, 420, 430(stuff I do not want to bother thinking about now, forgive my ignorance) you can go to specialized math classes. I know that in my 11th or 12th I will probably take Statistics, multivariable calculus or linear algebra. My school also has math courses with selected topics into computational uses.

@awesomepolyglot Nothing, they’re just messing with ya.

@iflycuzican, some schools allow students to take a course over the summer. It is perfectly fine that your daughter is in Geometry Honors. She is ahead of many, and if that is as advanced as she can be right now, do not worry.

@black1234 Thank you. My daughter’s school only offers up to AP Calculus. ETA- It’s AP Calculus AB

@iflycuzican
Schools and county’s vary a lot across the country. In my county the accelerated math selection used to start in 3rd grade at some (most?) schools. You could take a test and if you passed, you could attend a GT (gifted and talented) program. The program is for 4th and 5th grades, the students in the program could take any of the math classes available (except the on level classes). Most schools offered math 4 to math 8 (basically prealgebra). From then you have the option of going to magnet middle schools which have math courses structured to teach 4 years of math in 3 years (meaning that it’s possible to get to calculus by freshman year.) It was possible to enter the advanced track starting from kindergarten and you could advance at pretty much whatever pace you felt comfortable with.
Of course this all changed with the introduction of Common Core and now their are only three math tracks available, one year advanced, on level, and one year behind. Oh, and the only way to get to the advanced track is by being accepted to the GT program in THIRD GRADE, if you don’t get in you have to either wait until high school and take summer courses or have your parents bother the school until you get in.

/end rant

TLDR; my county used to have a pretty great math program with a lot of flexibility, I got into a GT program, did well and was recommended to skip into Algebra 1 as a 6th grader. I passed the class and followed the natural progression of math classes and here I am.

Math III Honors (maybe math III/ pre-calc but I hate math)
French II
English II Honors
Honors Chemistry
AP World History
AP Human Geography or AP Environmental

that’s all I have so far.I have 2 more spots to fill. Maybe I can convince my school to let me take 3 APs but idk

@adiacs
Have you completed all of your graduation requirements (gym, health, art), if you haven’t, you should probably take that next year.

Common core is trash.

I agree

I feel bad for you guys, I am exempt from that monstrosity that is common core :smiley: The program I am in, it has saved me time and time again

I don’t have to ever endure Common Core math, but I see my younger siblings having to do the dumbest multiplication and addition methods. My sister was forced to take math 6 THREE TIMES along with the rest of her classmates despite most having passed the class the first time. :open_mouth:
My brother (now in 4th grade), spent most of last year reviewing previous material. He also had literally the same English homework for FOUR YEARS. Writing a couple sentences about a book every weeknight. That was the same assignment he got every day, for years.

I got that for 6 years. But I do have to agree with you, my elementary school experience was hindered because of common core. I excelled at everything possible at that school, the teachers all developed this disliking of me. They told me that I was a sarcastic know it all -_- I always wanted to form a school for the academically gifted but hindered, one day I will

good for you!

I dont believe in GT programs ,everyone is smart

You are right, but wrong. Everyone learns at different rates, everyone matures at different rates. In today’s society, the smartest are the ones who get Research degrees by the time they are 20 or younger. This results in the faster learners being called gifted and smarter than those who learn at slower paces. You can not go around saying that everyone is smart, without something to back it up. I could be a genius, but if my test scores said otherwise, I would be labeled as incompetent. I was never accepted into the gifted program, even though those that flunked fourth grade were, I found that laughable.

The correct way to word that is, “Everyone is smart in their own way, but everyone has their faults in certain things while learning. No one is perfect.”

I understand your teachers =D>

@ShatteredEyes
Preach ^:)^

@ShatteredEyes yaaaas

@TrainerGary seriously though, aren’t you a sophomore?

@IAmNotCreativ yeah we only have to do gym for one year and I don’t we have any art requirements or stuff like that

Have you guys talked to your counselors yet? I haven’t and probably aren’t going to until schedule-picking time.