My son has been accepted into Mays and with all of his AP credits for the Core classes, he will be almost done with his classes for his freshman year. He is a strong Math person (took Algebra in 7th Grade, took AP Calculus BC and is now taking AP Statistics.) Unfortunatly, he did not pass his AP Calculus BC test this year, but I think that is probably because of the format of the test this year. (On the bright side he made 5s on his English and US History exams, which I NEVER would have expected!) His Calculus teacher said that she is fairly accurate each year on which kids will pass and which will not and thought that my son was one that she would have thought should have made a 4 on the Calculus BC test.
So, now we are trying to get him finished with his two math classes before he enters TAMU next Fall. He has been approved to take Math 1324 (Math 140) at the local community college either for the wintermester or Spring. However, I don’t want to set him up for failure. Is Math 1324 relatively easy for a student who has taken AP calculus and AP statistics and did not struggle with the content?
We are planning on him brushing up his calculus and taking the AP Calculus AB test this Spring… hoping it will be the normal format. That will count for his other Math 142.
140 is more algebra focused. 142 is Business calc. Both of my kiddos got As in them. One did it a TAMU freshman year and the other did a minimester at community college (and she is not a math person). So it’s not hard, especially for a math person.
Thank you!
Based on https://catalog.tamu.edu/undergraduate/course-descriptions/math/ , Texas A&M MATH 140 looks like precalculus plus business applications, and MATH 142 looks like an easier version of calculus.
It is likely that he already knows much of the content. He can try the old final exams:
https://www.math.tamu.edu/~jgriffin/140-f2019/exams/
https://www.math.tamu.edu/~jgriffin/142-m2018/exams/
Here’s the course description. @ucbalumnus great idea on taking exams!!
Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences. Application of common algebraic functions, including polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and rational, to problems in business, economics and the social sciences; includes mathematics of finance, including simple and compound interest and annuities; systems of linear equations; matrices; linear programming; and probability, including expected value.
@ucbalumnus Thank you for the idea. I printed a couple of the tests and had my son just look through them and he said he could do them with no problem. It definitely put my mind at easy that he would be able to do well in the class.
The math he has to do in business won’t surpass anything he had to do in highschool for his freshman year of college.