<p>Our school doesn't offer BC. I'm going from Pre-Calc to AB next year.</p>
<p>My school offers both AB and BC.</p>
<p>After precalculus you can go into AB, which is a one year, meets every other day course. After that (if you're not a senior), you can go into BC, but the first semester is just a repeat of AB material so one may find that very boring.</p>
<p>After precalculus you may also take BC, which is a one year, meets every day course. First semester is AB and second semester is BC.</p>
<p>Currently we have 12 students in our BC calculus class - 6 seniors, 5 juniors and 1 sophomore.</p>
<p>We have no separate class for IB Math HL; it is combined into the Calculus BC class. For IB students who plan to take the HL exam, the teacher takes some time to separately prepare the student for topics that are not covered in the BC curriculum. It is also advised that the student take AP Statistics. Currently 7 of the 12 BC students are IB Diploma candidates - 2 seniors and 4 juniors, and the one sophomore also completes internal assessments as he intends to enter the IB DP next year.</p>
<p>Different options at my school:
9 - Geometry; 10 - Algebra II; 11 - Precalculus; 12 - Calculus AB
9 - Geometry; 10 - Algebra II; 11 - Precalculus; 12 - Calculus BC
9 - Geometry; 10 - Algebra II; 11 - Precalculus; 12 - IB Math Methods SL
9 - Geometry; 10 - Algebra II; 11 - Precalculus; 12 - IB Math HL (Calculus BC)
9 - Algebra II; 10 - Precalculus; 11 - Calculus AB; 12 - Calculus BC
9 - Algebra II; 10 - Precalculus; 11 - Calculus BC; 12 - Math at local state university
9 - Algebra II; 10 - Precalculus; 11 - IB Math Methods SL; 12 - Calculus AB
9 - Algebra II; 10 - Precalculus; 11 - IB Math Methods SL; 12 - Calculus BC
9 - Algebra II; 10 - Precalculus; 11 - IB Math HL (Calculus BC); 12 - Math at local state university
Additionally some students start at Algebra I. AP Statistics can be taken concurrently with or after precalculus.</p>
<p>pre-calc to BC or pre-calc to AB... but the BC teacher is so bad most drop and go to AB or regular Calc mid-year. there is a rumor that BC won't be offered next year</p>
<p>Many take pre-calc junior year. The majority go to Calc AB(1 year course) and a few (like 1 class worth) go to BC.</p>
<p>pre-calc to BC or pre-calc to AB... but the BC teacher is so bad most drop and go to AB or regular Calc mid-year. there is a rumor that BC won't be offered next year</p>
<p>the general sequence for our school is (starting from 8th grade) ::
Honors Algebra I => Pre-AP Geometry => Pre-AP Algebra 2 => Pre-AP PreCalc => AP Calc => AP Stats (for the few lucky people who are allowed to take geometry and algebra 2 at the same time and take the rest of the classes in sequence a year early, or simply take it with calc at the same time)
OR the regular classes as above, starting from 9th grade, omitting the AP classes</p>
<p>We do AB one year and BC the next. most seniors take AB, and it ends up so that there are usually less than 7-8 kids taking BC, but more kids are on track to take it in the future.
the scores we get are really good; all 4/5 last year in AB/BC except for one 3 in BC.</p>
<p>My school offers both AB and BC as full-year courses. I some (most?) people go from pre-calc to BC, but some do pre-calc, then AB, then BC (if they're in pre-calc as sophomores). I never understood why someone would do AB and BC, though - wouldn't the entire first semester just be a repetition of AB?</p>
<p>Im going from Algebra 2/Pre Calc to BC.
Theres a BC class and 2 AP classes.</p>
<p>late post, but i was wondering the same thing. our teacher uses his own unpublished textbook along with mathematica to teach. we’re all juniors in bc and over ninety percent of us get fives. he’s pretty hated among calculus teachers across the country because nobody wants to take up his unconventional methods of teaching, but his success is ridiculous. it’s way too hard to reform teaching in america.</p>
<p>Nicholax, what are his methods??? You got me curious!</p>
<p>In the “system” at my school, AB and BC are two separate courses, but in reality, AB and BC students are mixed together in class periods. Throughout the year, the same material is taught, tests are the same, everything is identical. But then around January/February, BC students are given the assignments pertinent to the BC curriculum, which they must learn essentially on their own accord.</p>
<p>DarkEyes- honestly id explain his textbook to you if i could but i probably wouldnt explain it very well. basically he provides the foundations for us derive the concepts and their applications on our own, rather than baseless memorization. he makes math seem clear and less convoluted, and we retain the information without hours of tedious and repetitive practice problems (sorry, not trying to attack conventional education systems). im not the most academically-geared kid but the way he teaches gets me pretty into it.</p>
<p>There are two series of math courses at my middle school/high school.</p>
<p>end of 7th grade: Take placement test.</p>
<p>Pass test:
8th Algebra 1
End of 8th: Take placement test to stay in honors track
9th Geometry Honors
10th Algebra 2 Honors
11th Pre-calculus honors
12th Calculus BC</p>
<p>At any time, getting below 80% in the second semester gets you dropped to the non-honors track for the next year. This is a very rough rule, and it’s basically up to the teacher’s discretion. Lots of students would get C’s in honors classes, and then complain about being in regular classes the next year. Or the department chair would listen to their complaints and put them in honors classes anyway, where they would fail even worse.</p>
<p>Non honors track:</p>
<p>9th Geometry
10th Algebra 2
11th Pre-calculus
12th Calculus AB</p>
<p>Calculus BC at my school is an extremely successful class for the students who do make it that far, and everyone (over 30 students a year) has gotten 5’s for the past 2 or 3 years. This is because the honors track teaches fast enough so that by the time students are taking Pre-calculus honors, the actual pre-calculus curriculum left to teach isn’t very much. Over half the time in pre-calculus honors was spent learning Calculus AB material, and some BC topics, so that by the time we started Calculus BC, we had already learned 1/2 of what we needed to know. Calculus BC was mostly review for the first semester. Unfortunately, the calculus teacher who made this entire honors math system work retired last year, and for first semester we had a really bad teacher. He was fired after the first semester, and the old calculus teacher came out of retirement just to teach Calculus BC this one last time. We already finished every topic except Maclauren series, which we learn tomorrow. Then we have over a month to review everything.</p>
<p>Well, at my school (lincoln park high school, chicago IL)
If you’re on the IB Track it goes
9th PIB - Geo/Trig (counts for 1.5 credits)/Pre-Calculus
10th PIB - Pre Calc/Trig (1.5 credits also)/AP Statistics (only if you have taken Pre-Calc)
11th IB - Math Studies (overview of math)/ Calculus AB/ Calculus BC
12th IB - Opt-out of Math/ Math SL/ Math HL/
and they offer an elective known as Further Mathematics for people who just LOVE math… only 2 people are taking it currently… apparently University of Chicago professors come in and they do some huge analytical studies or whatever</p>
<p>At my school you take both Calculus AB and BC. The school treats it more like Calculus 1 and 2, rather than one with fewer or more topics. The school is on a block schedule meaning 4 classes a semester for 90 minute periods. Calculus AB went for 2 semesters, then the next year Calculus BC was only 1 semester to cover the 3 additional chapters of Calculus 2 material. So in reality we take Calculus Honors and AP Calculus AB, then AP Calculus BC. Three classes worth of Calculus to cover Calc 1 and 2. Got a 5 on the Calc AB exam last year and I am patiently waiting to see what I got on the BC exam this year! ^.^</p>
<p>I did Math Analysis/Calc A in 10th grade and then BC junior year.</p>
<p>My teacher basically reviewed Chapters 1-4 (Through max/min/optimization) for the first two weeks of school. Chapters 5-8 (Basically Calc B) covered the remainder of the semester and Calc C (Chapters 9 and 10) lasted only the first half of the second semester. The remainder of time was prep.</p>
<p>We would have AP FRQ quizzes each and every week. He would give us 3 FRQ worth one point per subsection, for a total of 9 points on average. 7 points or higher gives you 10/10 on the assignment. 6 or less gives you 0/10. We get about 13 quizzes each semester and the total goes out of /100, so you can pass 10/13 quizzes and still get 100.</p>
<p>He has a 90% 5 rate and a 98% pass rate.</p>
<p>My school only offers AB, but you can self-study BC material while in AB class…That’s exactly what I did and got a 4 (AB subscore of 5)…</p>
<p>Calculus AB is a prerequisite to Calculus BC at my school. They are each a year long course.</p>
<p>Calc AB is also a prerequisite to Calc BC at my school, as ^ is also. </p>
<p>You can take Calc AB either as a junior or a senior. If you take it as a junior, then you can take Calc BC as a senior. If you take AB as a senior, then you can do concurrent enrollment for BC that year too (juniors could take both at once also, but since they have another year, they usually just do that).</p>
<p>Calc AB is a full year course; BC is 2nd semester only.</p>
<p>Calc AB and BC are both 1.5 credits (90 minutes every day in the fall and 45 minutes everyday in the spring). They stay on the same schedule (BC is slightly accelerated, only by a week to two weeks) until BC starts BC only topics in the spring.</p>