<p>So I'm in 10th grade right now, and I've been wondering what math class to take next year.</p>
<p>I'm in Math Analysis (Trig first semester/Precalc second) right now, and I'm doing pretty well. Actually, I have the highest grade in the class, although I think its only around a 95%.</p>
<p>Anyway, I've gotten A's in all my math classes, from Algebra 1 to now. But math isn't my favorite subject.</p>
<p>So next year (junior) I'll be taking calculus and physics, but I'm not sure what level. At my school, to take honors physics, you need to be in Calc AB, and to take AP Physics, you need to be in Calc BC. </p>
<p>My school offers HS (reg.) Calc, AP Calc AB, and AP Calc BC.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?! Thank you! :S</p>
<p>Well you should always aim to take the most rigorous course load available, which would be calc BC and honors physics!</p>
<p>AP Calc AB is painfully slow. Do Calc BC.</p>
<p>If I where you I would take AB/honors physics next year and then AP physics/calc BC if you liked the first two classes.</p>
<p>If you are smart and privileged enough to be taking Precalculus in 10th grade, then there is no reason whatsoever for you to be taking AB or HS calc unless your school makes you. Trust me - you will be bored to death in reg/AB calc.</p>
<p>Take BC Calculus.</p>
<p>How is it that everyone’s school on here allows you to go from precalc to calc BC? At my school we had to take honors precalc in order to take calc AB, and had to take calc AB in order to take BC.</p>
<p>If BC is calc 1 and 2, not just 2, definitely take bc. At my school we call it ab/bc but it’s one class.</p>
<p>@bl4ke360: AP Calculus BC is SUPPOSED to be a stand-alone course that is an extended version of AB, but some schools will divide up AB and BC into two different courses like yours.</p>
<p>I thought BC started with the second half of AB and then calc C, since AB and BC both share the “B”.</p>
<p>There is a lot of confusion with AP Calculus it seems…</p>
<p>You could consider dual enrollment, especially since you’d be able to take all the way to multivariable calculus at a college. I didn’t like high school math since I learned quickly, but there was a lot of graded homework that seemed to just waste my time. When I switched to dual enrollment courses, where my homework was optional, I could study as much as I needed to, even if that was not studying at all. I actually feel like I’m learning more, but it’s much less stressful.</p>
<p>Hm, just go and do AP Calc BC and Physics. Calculus BC as a subject is not ridiculously hard. and @bl4ke, different schools have different curricula and requirements. I went from Alg 2/Trig to AP calc BC, because I could and asked to do so online. </p>
<p>You have to understand, math education in this country is screwy. Really screwy.</p>
<p>My school is like bl4ke’s. If you follow the most advanced path, you take Calc AB in junior year + a couple BC topics (integration by parts and L’Hoptial’s Rule, mainly), and then you take “Calc BC & Calc 2” senior year. That class is the remaining BC topics (parametics, conics, and series) and some multivariable topics.
Personally, I wish I had the option to take a Calculus BC class last year and maybe a Multivariable/DiffEq class this year, or something. But I can’t complain.</p>