<p>Our pathway goes like this.</p>
<p>Pre-Algebra (which I took in 6th)
Algebra 1 (7th)
Algebra 2 (8th)
Geometry (9th)
PreCalc and Trig (10th, which I am in now)
AP Calc I<br>
AP Calc II
Unless you want to take AP Stats instead of Calc…</p>
<p>Fairy, I would say it’s certainly not typical, even amongst the best students, however it’s also not unheard of. I would imagine it would generally be done by people who are very mathematically inclined, and do something like take both Geometry and Algebra 2 their Freshman year, and then study Trig over the summer and take BC their Sophomore year, or learn both Algebra 2 and Trig over their summer.</p>
<p>^This guy must be old or something.
Trig is standard must-skip nowadays.</p>
<p>Son’s math teacher explained it at Back to School Night. “Why isn’t there a course called Trig any more?” In the olden days, you had to look up all the sines and cosines and tangents in tables. It took a long time. Now, it only takes a few weeks to teach because the calculator does it.</p>
<p>^There’s more to trig than learning how to calculate angles and side lengths, and if they’re teaching “trig” in just a few weeks, that’s all they’re teaching.</p>
<p>Roflmao.
Calculating angles/side length, law of cosines/sines/tangent/unit circle only takes a week at most.</p>
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<p>It should only take an instant… if it’s taking weeks you’re doing it wrong</p>
<p>For regular students:
7th - Pre Algebra
8th - Algebra I
9th - Geometry
10th - Algebra II
11th - Pre Calc for most, Prob and Stats, or none
12th - Calc AA, AB, or BC</p>
<p>For advanced students (like 30 per grade who do very well on a certain test):
7th - Algebra I
8th - Geometry
9th - Algebra II
10th - Pre-Calc
11th - Calc AA, AB, or BC
12 - Whatever we want. Most of us aren’t taking anything.</p>
<p>There are some people who come in from other schools and are thus tracked a year behind in math. Some people double up, taking AP stats. There’s one kid who went crazy and finished Calc BC the summer before his junior year, but he’s the only person who ever did that and probably the only person who will.</p>
<p>7th: alg 1
8: geo
9: alg 2
10: pre calc
11: calc 2 (dont recommend this. our school had some of us who got good grades in pre calc skip to calc 2, i got destroyed)
12: multivariable calc (calc 3)</p>
<p>“Calculating angles/side length, law of cosines/sines/tangent/unit circle only takes a week at most.”</p>
<p>“It should only take an instant… if it’s taking weeks you’re doing it wrong.”</p>
<p>Even if either of those were true or realistic, neither of those are really learning trig. Again, there’s way more to it than being able to calculate angles and side lengths. That stuff is mostly learned in Geometry.</p>
<p>My school goes:</p>
<p>Geometry>Alg II>Precalc and Trig>AP Calc </p>
<p>I’m kind of ****ed because I’ve been able to skip Algebra I, II, and Precalc but I’m on the normal path as of the moment because school bureaucracy won’t let me and my parents don’t care about my school stuff (they let me handle that)</p>
<p>^They don’t exist in high school trig classes.
Although trig HS classes also have polor coordinates/hyperbolic functions/logarithmic functions/exponential functions/projection/finite series/progression etc.</p>
<p>Maybe in college trig/physics/calculus you learn whatever you’re talking about.</p>
<p>Trig in HS is mostly pythagorean identities etc. and manipulating trigonemetric equations/functions.</p>
<p>In our trig/precalc classes, we do all those things (polar, conics, various functions) and some in ALG2 (finite series etc.)</p>
<p>I feel nowadays high schools are combining too many classes. Nowadays I see Algebra II/Trigonometry, Geometry/Algebra II, Trigonometry/Precalculus… Makes me feel that high schools are rushing through classes instead of taking the time to teach them adequately, unless they spend the summer learning the topics.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I was joking. Personally the most annoying thing about Calculus was how I was supposedly expected to have memorized certain values for trig functions. Obviously it’s good to have some idea, but I don’t like the idea of being marked down for forgetting whether it’s rad3/3 or rad3/2.</p>
<p>7th grade - Pre-Algebra
8th grade - Algebra I
9th grade - (which I think ridiculous) - Algebra I (again)
10th grade - Geometry and/or Trig (optional)
11th grade - Algebra II/Pre-Cal
12th grade - AP Calc</p>
<p>For me:</p>
<p>9th Alg I
10 Geometry
11 Algebra II
12 Pre-Cal</p>
<p>I could have taken AP Cal Ab during my Jr year , but my middle school wasnt so “great”, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>Mine:
9th- AP Computer Science (It’s a math class at my school :P) + Honors Alg II + Honors Advanced functions and trig
10th- Honors Pre Calc
11th- AP Calc BC
12th- who knows yet :P</p>
<p>“Normal” at my school ends in pre-calc, accelerated ends in AP calc.</p>
<p>It’s different at different schools… but my school is:</p>
<p>Pre-Algebra -> Algebra I -> Geometry -> Algebra II/Trig. -> Pre-Calculus -> AP Calculus AB
Pre-Algebra -> Algebra I -> Geometry -> Algebra II/Trig. -> Pre-Calculus -> Honors Calculus
Pre-Algebra -> Algebra I -> Geometry -> Algebra II/Trig. -> Algebra III -> Pre-Calculus
Pre-Algebra -> Algebra I -> Geometry -> Algebra II -> Algebra III -> Pre-Calculus
Pre-Algebra -> Algebra I -> Geometry -> Algebra II -> Pre-Calculus -> Calculus or AP Calculus AB
Pre-Algebra -> Pre-Algebra B -> Algebra I -> Geometry AND Algebra II/Trig. -> Pre-Calculus -> AP Calculus AB or Calculus
Pre-Algebra -> Pre-Algebra B -> Algebra I -> Geometry -> Algebra II or Algebra II Trig -> Pre-Calculus or Algebra III</p>
<p>So yeah… we’ve got a ton of different paths. Some kids are able to take Pre-Alg in 6th grade… but most start in seventh. If they start in sixth grade, then they can take BC senior year. Or they can skip AB and go straight to BC senior year if they didn’t start early.</p>