How does your school do BC calculus?

<p>Most Advanced Math Route:</p>

<p>7th —> Pre-Alg
8th —> Alg 1
Frosh —> Geometry (1 Semester)
Soph —> Alg 2 & Precalc (2 Semesters)
Junior —> AB (Every other day for a full year)
Senior —> BC (“”)</p>

<p>After Honors Algebra II/Trig, students with a B or better usually take Calc BC, and students below that take Calc AB. They’re each year long courses. Students who take AB, however, aren’t eligible to take MVC the next year, and can only take AP Stats if they also enroll in Calc BC.</p>

<p>9th - Geometry
10th - Algebra 2
11th - Precalculus
12th - Nothing, Calc AB, BC, or Statistics </p>

<p>I’m quite surprised so many people end up taking AB and then BC here.</p>

<p>For the accelerated math track at my school taking AB the year before BC is mandatory. AB is treated as an honors class while BC is an AP class.</p>

<p>We have AB as one full year course, and BC as the next year. Some people take AB junior year, then BC senior year (which I did), and some people just take AB senior year…</p>

<p>That being said, there really wasn’t enough material in BC to last us the whole year. We goofed around a ton, watched a lot of movies, colored in a lot of coloring books, and decorated the room for a few days before every holiday. And as far as I know, we all got 4 and 5’s. Best class ever.</p>

<p>At our school AB is not required for BC, however some people who are not great at math do take AB and then BC.</p>

<p>There’s a few options. Some take a year of AB (alternating day, so really a semester of class time) then BC the next. Some, with teacher approval, take a semester of AB followed by a semester of BC, which is essentially just one class of BC stretched over the course of a school year. That’s what I did. And I think there was another option where a student could jump right into BC w/o AB w/ teacher approval.</p>

<p>PreCalc Honors Junior to AB for the entire Senior year, then any students who want to take BC go to night classes for about a month or so to supplement normal class. everyone who takes BC gets a 5, nearly every AB student gets a 5. seems to be a good system.</p>

<p>My school has three math tracks, most commonly referred to as “low” (being normal), “middle”, and “high” math. The high math track takes honors algebra II in 9th grade, followed by honors precalc in 10th, and then in 11th grade can take AB, BC, or (if enough people want to) take the 12th grade middle-math regular calculus. Most people end up taking AB or BC, and the teacher usually says which one you’re cut out for. My class this year was very strong so the teacher wanted EVERYONE to take BC, but some people took AB because they wanted to take a different science. Everyone in BC is required to take honors physics with calculus at the same time because they use part of the science time to teach calculus concepts. That’s how my school works!</p>

<p>My school goes from pre-calc to either AB or BC, depending on the student’s choice, but the BC teacher said that parts of AB are taught in precalculus anyway, which makes BC a feasible choice.</p>

<p>For me: (This is the most advanced path… :()</p>

<p>7th - Pre-Alg.
8th - Alg. 1
9th - Geom./Alg. 2 (over summer after)
10th - Pre-Calc
11th - AP Calc BC
12th - Nothing else to do…</p>

<p>9th:Geometry H
10th: Algebra II trig
11th: Precalc H OR AP Calc AB and/or BC (my math teacher can only remember 2 students ever taken AB/BC calc as a junior)
12th: AB/BC Calc AP</p>

<p>our school recently switched from the 4 classes a day block schedule to a six a day trimester system and i took calc AB in 11th and we covered a ton, now for calc 2 (BC), we have a whole year to learn 3 more textbook chapters… they should probably fix this because i haven’t had homework yet… not that i’m complaining though haha</p>

<p>Our school does AP Calculus I and II where AP Calculus I has the AB + BC material and AP Calculus II is all AP test preparation.</p>

<p>Most advanced:
9th: Honors Algebra II/Honors Pre-Calc
10th: Honors Pre-Calc/AP Calculus I/II/AP Stat
11th: AP Calculus I/II/AP Stat
12th: PSEO (if taking the most advanced math “path”)/AP Stat</p>

<p>Most advanced route:
9th: honors alg II
10th: honors trig/pre-calc (all 1 class)
11th: AP Calc AB or AP Stat
12th: AP Calc BC or AP Stat</p>

<p>This year there are about 35 kids taking AP Calc AB, and our grades normally have about 170 students. Not sure how many are taking BC, I only know about AB cause I’m in it. The majority of the students get 5s on the AP Calc AB test, our AP Calc (AB/BC) teacher is phenomenal. He actually thinks the test is too easy because too many students from our classes get 5s on it :p.</p>

<p>9: Algebra I</p>

<p>10: Geometry</p>

<p>11: Alg2/trig</p>

<p>12: AP calc AB/ AP stats</p>

<p>We don’t do BC. Calc AB is a double period and there’s a 6 week summer course for it in my school.</p>

<p>Calc BC is online at my HS. It’s lame.</p>

<p>7th: Pre- Algebra
8th : Integrated Algebra
9th: Geometry or Honors Geometry
10th: Algebra 2/Trig or Honors Algebra 2/Trig
11th: Precalculus or Honors Precalculus, you can also take AP Stat or AP Computer Science
12th: AP Calc AB or BC, and you can take AP Stat or AP Computer Science</p>

<p>most advanced path at my school is called double advanced math. (very few people do this, around 18 in a class of a little more than 500)
7th- advanced alg1
8th-advanced geometry
9th-advanced alg2/trig
10th-advanced pre calc
11th-ap calc bc
12th-calc3/linear algebra(combined into one course)</p>

<p>9th: Geometry
10th: Algebra II
11th: Stats or Pre-Cal
12th: AP Calc AB only (We don’t have a BC class)</p>