<p>Okay so my school had a problem this year. Both of our high school math teachers left (Small private school) and our replacements for this year...sucked, so i got out of it and im taking pre-calc online via my state virtual school. So i have Summer before 11th grade, 11the grade, summer before 12 and 12 grade to really stand out in math especially because i love it.</p>
<p>So since we got rid of our sucky replacements for this year and hired an extremely well qualified teacher i can take Calc AB 11th grade and maybe Calc BC (both AP) 12th. But this..just isn't enough for me, would there be anyway for me to See if the teacher could combine Calc AB and BC like summer before 11th do summer school Calc AB and then all of 11th grade do Calc BC and then Maybe do college calc at the local university 12th grade or the summer before 12? I would also like to take AP stat in there somewhere? Any Suggestions CC?</p>
<p>(edit) By the way the most people have taken at my school for years is AB calc..</p>
<p>Why would you take 2 Calc classes at the same time? </p>
<p>Calc BC is nothing like Calc AB (in terms of difficulty and some topics), and without a solid foundation in Calc AB, you’re most likely going to bomb Calc BC. Since you are still learning concepts from AB, you won’t know the expected requirements to learn basics of BC. Plus the fact that Calc AB is around 4-5 hours a week of homework with an added 6 hours probably from Calc BC. </p>
<p>It’s like saying you want to take AP Bio, AP Env Sci, and AP Physics at one year. It’s just not necessary.</p>
<p>But since I won’t change your mind, prepare your body.</p>
<p>Im not saying take both at the same time, im saying During summer take Calc AB and then as soon as school starts again Start BC. This wouldn’t be doing both at the same time, and yes i understand that they are difficult and require a lot of work, but 1. I Love math and love grasping the concepts. 2. I want to be pushed to my limits, its the only way you can find new limits.</p>
<p>(Edit) sorry but how then do people take BC and skip AB? ive had a strong lead up into Precalc and i am confident in my ability to handle to concepts…lifes about risks and this is one im willing to take to see if i can do it.</p>
<p>If you believe you can finish AB in just 2 months (summer) then good luck! Just don’t miss cracks and holes in AB. There is so much foundation to AB, that missing it can be devastation in a BC class.</p>
<p>And in my area, I don’t nearly have the opportunities you do though. Good luck either way.</p>
<p>Ok so at my school classes are 50 mins long (about 40 mins of actual learning in some) 40*170(amount of school days minus a few half days and days stuff doesn’t get done)=6800 so thats 6800 mins of math in a year, 2 months at 2 hours a day is 7320 mins, this gives room for error and makeup time. It can be done easily, and i dont have great opportunities, but im about to create them. Any other CC’ers opinions?</p>
<p>Oh and I forgot to mention, if you want to take AP Calc AB and BC in the same year, good luck.</p>
<p>Both tests are administered at the same time on the same day so it’s practically impossible to take both. Plus the CollegeBoard prohibits doing it as well.</p>
<p>Its not about adding another AP to my list, i could just take the BC and get the ab subscore to satisfy that aspect, its about i want more than just this standard AB, BC…i love math and i really want more than is offered.</p>
<p>It’s not the Hardness aspect. BC is based on almost 100% of AB with additional topics. If you get cracks in your knowledge of AB, you will most likely not understand some things. Self-studying is not as helpful as a teacher inside a classroom. Self-studying is prone to much more mistakes.</p>
<p>But he seems motivated, so i’m not discouraging him.</p>
<p>I don’t comprehend any of the responses. In my school, nobody takes Calc AB. It’s straight to BC from Precalc and yet everybody still thinks the class is easy! You don’t need AB to do BC (which contains AB in itself); if you self studied AB you would be reviewing old concepts for over half the year.</p>
<p>Calc AB is self contained in Calc BC. At the college level AB covers Calc I and BC covers Calc I and II. You just go a lot faster in BC, you learn the material at a pace much more similar to what it’s like in college. Taking Calc AB is basically spending a year on what should be a semester long course if it is at the college level. At my school the best math students went in BC from pre-calc.
Also a misconception about the material specific to Calc BC is that it is not that important. However, if you are going into the physical sciences, this is absolutely false. You need to be comfortable with polar coordinates, series expansions, and differential equations in engineering, physics, chemistry, and math. In many college classes this expected.</p>
<p>Take AB and BC at the same time. At least in my school (and many others), a lot of BC is a repeat of AB. Taking just AB would probably be slow and boring if you’re really that motivated, depending on your teacher.</p>
<p>Then you take multivariable at a local college. You may also be able to enroll in another class (like discrete math, nt, app math, linear algebra, etc) if you can arrange it/or have time.</p>
<p>To clarify, sorry i was out playing soccer, i would not be self studying AB, i would be meeting with the teacher during summer to learn it, im not the best at self studying so that would be my option. If this doesnt work, ill see if i can skip AB Calc. But heres the problem…my school is ■■■■■■■■ when it comes to skipping classes…the guy that has the final on schedules doesn’t understand the order of stuff.</p>
<p>My suggestion would be to see if you can transfer out of pre-calc and into pre-calc/calc. They have this class at my school at least and it’s for the most advanced math students. It is basically squeezing pre-calc into the first 2 terms of school, and in the 3rd term (we only have 3) doing to A in calc (out of ABC) and that way there is no need for calc AB, you just go to Calc BC the next year.</p>
<p>Problem is im already in the Online Course, i cant drop it and not get a bad grade on my report card, and my school is so small they dont offer that, ill be the first person to even take beyond BC if this works out</p>