<p>My daughter skipped 7th grade math and is going to take AP Calculus her junior year. I learned that our school district will not schedule a Calculus II class her senior year because there are not enough qualified students for the class. Does anyone know of online colleges where she can take math classes her senior year?</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins CTY has Calculus BC.</p>
<p>[CTYOnline</a> - AP Calculus BC](<a href=“http://cty.jhu.edu/ctyonline/math/courses/calculus-bc.html]CTYOnline”>http://cty.jhu.edu/ctyonline/math/courses/calculus-bc.html)</p>
<p>S1 took advanced math classes at the local community college his senior year of high school.</p>
<p>Our district coordinates with the area CC for an extended learning class for those students that take MV Calc senior year (or sooner) - when my D took it there were only 3 at her school but the other area HS had a classroom full - the teacher actually taught the CC class from the HS - just traded time in each HS and each HS was connected online and by TV to the teacher/other classes.</p>
<p>The only problem was because it was taught in conjunction with the HS, even though she had to enroll in the CC and was considered a student of the CC for this class her college wouldn’t accept it as a college credit because it was used for HS credit as well (she didn’t need it for HS credit so if we had known we would have skipped that part).</p>
<p>Anyway, my point was it may be advantageous as she could then potentially use it as a college credit depending where she goes!</p>
<p>Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is another possibility.</p>
<p>[Art</a> of Problem Solving](<a href=“http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/]Art”>http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/)</p>
<p>Check on the Homeschoolers sub-forum, but I have heard Keystone and Florida Virtual School accept all students and neither requires state residency. I have also heard Brigham-Young on-line courses are very inexpensive. The cost is equivalent to our community college (about $400-$450 last I checked).</p>
<p>Does the school offer/has she already taken AP Statistics? (S is taking AP Calc BC as a junior, and is taking stats next year. His other option was to take a higher math course at our community college.)</p>
<p>animalover…both my daughters also accelerated in math and skipped beyond the norm even for accelerated tracks at our HS. Thus, both took AP Calculus as Juniors which nobody does here. The accelerated kids here take AP Calculus as Seniors. So, this left no math for senior year as they had exhausted the curriculum. D2 graduated after junior year and so it was a moot point. But D1 wanted to continue in math and went into a field where math is important. She took AP Calculus BC online through Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and got credit for it and it was added to her transcript. She also took the Calc BC AP exam. It worked out well. Taking classes at a college would not work in this case due to both distance to a college (we live in a rural area) and the fact that my D was heavily scheduled in extracurricular activities outside the school day. She scheduled one period a day in senior year for math and sat in the Math Dept. Head’s office and did her CTY course long distance. Worked well.</p>
<p>The Art of Problem Solving class Deborah mentions, while excellent, does not go past the curriculum for BC Calculus. I don’t know what Calculus II would be, but a second year calculus class usually includes multivariable calculus. If that’s what the OP is looking for, she won’t find it in the AoPS class.</p>
<p>doesn’t stanford have long-distance learning for AP classes?</p>
<p>Yeah, I thought that Calc class might not go far enough for the OP. I was wondering whether the Group Theory class would provide a challenge. I truly have no clue what it is all about! Cardinal Fang, any chance you can provide insight on that? And the competition oriented classes, do students ever start in on those as a senior or is that a route usually started earlier?</p>
<p>In my state, the school will pay for college classes when there is no comparable class in the high school. You should ask about dual enrollment.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for us, even though D exhausted the school’s math curriculum, we had to pay for the JHU-CTY course.</p>
<p>@Deborah T, Fair enough, if I’m following this correctly. Apologies if my tone or anything I said was callous or affronted you, CF.</p>
<p>That’s my other account (I’m Jacobtess). ^</p>
<p>Just a heads up. AP Stats doesn’t get you anything worthwhile credit wise. Neither does Linear Algebra or that problem solving class. Shoot for Calc 2 if you can. Also this is based off of the UofM so they may b more lenient at worse colleges.</p>
<p>CTY uses Stanford EPGY materials I believe.</p>
<p>I recommend UIUC NetMath - they provide university courses instead of AP courses though.</p>
<p>Animalover, what does your daughter want in a math class? What does she think she might study in college? Does she enjoy math for its own sake?</p>
<p>If she’s going in the engineering direction, she should look for a Multivariable Calculus class. She’d need Linear Algebra too, but usually one is required to take the calculus first. Maybe a community college night class would work?</p>
<p>If she likes math, enjoys thinking about math, perhaps is thinking of a math major or minor, then the Group Theory class from Art of Problem Solving would be a good choice.</p>
<p>If she hasn’t done AP Statistics, and the class in her school is a good one (not just recipes), she could take it. Otherwise she could wait until college and take calculus-based statistics.</p>
<p>If she is thinking of some non-math, non-science major, and she doesn’t particularly like math, I would suggest finding an advanced liberal arts class instead of math. If she has done a year of calculus, she doesn’t need any more math.</p>
<p>Cardinal Fang has good advice. In my experience (I was a math minor) and S1’s experience (he’s a math major) the order in which you take linear algebra or multi-variable calculus is not crucial. Neither course is necessarily a prerequisite for the other.</p>
<p>Is she taking Calculus AB or BC her junior year?
If she is taking BC, she could move on to Linear Algebra.
Have you looked at MIT open courseware? It is free! For example, you could look at this:
[MIT</a> OpenCourseWare | Mathematics | 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2010 | Home](<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/]MIT”>Linear Algebra | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare)
There are plenty of other courses in all kinds of subjects! It probably wouldn’t go on her transcript, but she could indicate in her college applications that she did this, and she would learn!
Some other ideas: does your school offer Computer Science? AP Physics? These would allow her to think mathematically or apply the calculus.
Or, does your school offer AP economics? This would involve some math.
Good luck!</p>