<p>Something I've been very curious about regarding Honors & Accelerated Math courses offered in different high schools across the nation. In my school, you take a placement test before the start of 6th grade and that determines whether or not you'll be placed in H&A Math. After middle school, the high school math sequence goes:</p>
<p>Freshman year - Geometry & Algebra (Honors and Accelerated) Sophomore year - Precalculus & Trigonometry (Honors and Accelerated) Junior Year - Calculus BC Senior Year - Multivariable Calculus and Advanced Applications</p>
<p>This is typical of about 45 of my peers currently doing the final year of this program.
I'm wondering how many high schools go as far as Mulivariable Calc because a ton of people at very well-reputed colleges are starting off at Precalc or Calc I (yes, engineering and math majors too).
So, how does it go at your school, and did you do it?</p>
<p>7th grade: Algebra I
8th grade: Geometry
9th grade: Algebra II
10th grade: Pre Calculus
11th grade: AP Calculus AB // AP Calculus BC
12th grade: AP Calculus BC & AP Statistics// Multivariable & AP Statistics</p>
<p>7th grade: Algebra I
8th Grade: Geometry
9th Grade; Algebra II
10th Grade: Precalculus, including Trigonometry
11th Grade: Calculus AB
12th Grade Calculus BC if there’s enough people or AP Statistics as the only advanced math course left.</p>
<p>Freshman year: Algebra 2/Trig
Sophomore year: Precalculus
Junior Year: AP Calc BC
Senior Year: AP Stats or go to local CC to take Multivariable Calc or Stats (our AP Stats teacher is bad)</p>
<p>Middle School. Offered At the Low, Medium, and High level.
(everyone) 7th Grade - Pre Algebra/Geometry
(everyone) 8th Grade - Algebra I
High School. This is the highest track of math for my high school.
9th Grade - Honors Geometry
10th Grade - Honors Algebra II
11th Grade - Honors Precalculus
12th Grade - AP Calculus AB or AP Calculus BC and/or* AP Statistics</p>
<p>7th grade: Algebra I
8th Grade: Geometry
9th Grade; Algebra II
10th Grade: Precalculus (ie trig)
11th Grade: Calculus AB or BC
12th Grade Calculus III (full year) and Advanced Topics, a 2 credit class that covers random things</p>
<p>AP Stats can be taken starting in 10th grade.</p>
<p>7th & 8th: Algebra I
8th (optional, only a handful of people): Honors Geometry
Freshman: (Honors?) Geometry or Honors Algebra 2
Sophomore: Honors Algebra II or AP Stats
Junior: Honors Pre-Calc
Senior: AP Stats or AP Calc AB/BC</p>
<p>I had to take the harder classes for freshman and sophomore year since I took geometry in middle school. Most people start in geometry their freshman year and can end in either stats or calc, or both.</p>
<p>7th grade: Algebra 1 H
8th grade: geometry H
Summer before 9th grade: Algebra 2 H
9th grade: Pre calc
10th grade: AP Calc AB
11th grade: Calc 2/Calc 3
12th grade: Diff Eq/Matrix Theory</p>
<p>This is typical at my school. I am a little a head of this by one semester.</p>
<p>You can take AP Stats either sophomore year or senior year.</p>
<p>My school is really odd, because only about 20 kids out of 250 will be eligible for AP Calc AB by their senior year. The exceptions to this rule are the 2 or 3 juniors each year that took Geometry before coming to high school, so they skip it in school. This allows them to take AP Calc AB in their junior year. These kids are usually very adept at math as well.
For the normal student, this is the path: Freshman: Algebra 2 H1 Sophomore: Geometry H1 Junior: Precalculus H1 Senior: AP Calc AB (AP Stats for the less motivated student)
For the student that took Geometry before high school: Freshman: Algebra 2 H1 Sophomore: Precalculus H1 Junior: AP Calc AB Senior: AP Stats (BC calc is not offered)</p>
<p>As far as what I did, I took a really random path. This is what I did:</p>
<p>Freshman: Algebra 1 (at different high school, I transferred) Sophomore: Geometry H1 and Algebra 2 H1, Precalculus (during the summer) Junior: AP Calc AB (5 on exam) Senior: AP Stats (possibly self-studying Calc BC, we’ll see)</p>
<p>7th:Math 1
8th:Math 2
9th:Math 3
10th: Math 4 and if it fits inschedule Pre Calc H
11th:Precalc H or AP calc AB
12th:AP calc AB or AP calc BC
and which school do you got btw</p>
7th grade: Algebra 1 H
8th grade: geometry H
Summer before 9th grade: Algebra 2 H
9th grade: Pre calc
10th grade: AP Calc AB
11th grade: Calc 2/Calc 3
12th grade: Diff Eq/Matrix Theory</p>
<p>This is typical at my school. I am a little a head of this by one semester.</p>
<p>You can take AP Stats either sophomore year or senior year.
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<p>Thats the hardest one I’ve ever seen. A full math course dedicated to differential equations and Matrix Theory? Ours only goes upto Calc III (basically, Multivar Calc). How many people actually take that course, btw? Which part of the sequence are you in? And what state is your school in, if you don’t mind me asking.</p>
<p>Also, I’m surprised that AP Stat is a part of the sequence at most of your schools. Our school just assumes that if you’re in the accelerated sequence, you should easily be able to ace AP Stat and that its pretty much pointless so they never go into it (they know the important stuff, the probability and regression…just not the Inferential part).
And you guys are lucky if you’re following the sequence. Mine got messed up so badly (I switched high schools after freshman year so my placement got messed up in the new one). -_-</p>
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12th grade - AP Stats / AP Calc AB / AP Calc BC / Multivariable Calc / Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
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<p>You can go into “any” of those after Precalc/Trig in Junior Year?
How does that work? :s</p>
<p>@sohaibshaikh: My high school is in New Jersey. This sequence is pretty much standard for most well-ranked schools in NJ.</p>
<p>I don’t know how it works either, I always found it to be unreasonable. Shouldn’t multivariable calc and Linear Algebra/Diff Eqns only be available for students who finished AP Calc BC? I know someone who signed up to take Linear Algebra and Differential Equations this year, and he hasn’t taken any calculus yet. I got accepted into Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (decided not to take it though) and the highest level of math I’ve taken is only pre-calc.</p>
<p>Freshman: Algebra 1 or Geometry (some take Algebra 2) Sophomore: Geometry or Algebra 2 (some take Pre-Calc) Junior: Algebra 2 or Pre-Calc or AP Stats (some take AP Calc AB/BC) Senior: Pre-Calc or AP Calculus AB/BC or AP Stats (some take Internet Math where they get to take an online math course offered from a university)</p>
<p>That makes absolutely no sense. Differential Equations and Linear Algebra builds off of Caclulus. It just doesn’t make sense to allow them before a Calc class.</p>