<p>My school’s accelerated path is </p>
<p>Eighth Grade: Geometry Honors
Freshman: Algebra II Honors
Sophomore: Pre-Calculus Honors
Junior: AP Calc BC
Senior: Multivariate Calculus and Linear Algebra Honors</p>
<p>However, I took </p>
<p>Seventh Grade: Geometry Honors
Eighth Grade: Algebra II Honors
Freshman: Pre-Calculus Honors
Sophomore: AP Calc AB (scheduling conflict)
Junior: AP Calc BC and Multivariate Calculus and Linear Algebra Honors (concurrently)
Senior: AP Statistics</p>
<p>From what I’ve discovered here, we cram five years of math into four…</p>
<p>Freshman year: Algebra I (there is no way to test out, and there is no honors version)
Sophomore Year: Honors Geometry
Junior Year: Honors Pre-Calculus (there are two versions–one if you’re taking AB senior year, another if you’re taking BC senior year, you just start calc in Junior year without calling it that if you take the BC version)
Senior Year: AP Calc BC</p>
<p>What I did:
8th: Algebra I honors
9th: Geometry honors
10th: Algebra II/Trig honors
11th: AP Statistics & AP Calculus AB (self-studying BC because BC is just an independent study at my school anyway)
12th: NO MORE MATH :'D</p>
<p>8th grade: Algebra I
9th grade: Geometry
10th grade: Algebra II
11th grade: Pre-calc
12th grade: AP Calc/Stats</p>
<p>Usually it looks like this:</p>
<p>9th: Geometry (assuming that the student did Algebra in 8th grade, this is determined with a placement exam)
10th: Algebra 2 + Trigonometry
11th: Honors Precalculus (believe it or not, this course has very little trig, only some treatment polar coordinates) / AP Stat (requires at least an 80 in Alg2/Trig)
12th: AP Calc AB (if the student gets at least a 90 in H. Precalc) / AP Calc BC (if the student got at least a 95 in H. Precalc, but if there are no seats, they will be pushed into AB) / AP Stat (requires at least an 80 in Alg2/Trig)</p>
<p>AP Calc AB and AP Calc BC are taught the way the Collegeboard meant them to be taught, that is both begin from the beginning of calculus and students take either one or the other. </p>
<p>It is common for students to double up Alg2/Trig with Precalc, especially if the student started with Algebra in 9th grade, so they can take AP Calc by senior year. </p>
<p>Some students (usually seniors) even skip Precalc and head into AP Calc (usually AB in this case) but they must have done extremely well in Alg2Trig for this to happen. The reason for this is that the math dep. head does not want any seniors in precalc, and would rather have them in AP Calc if they have a very good Alg2Trig grade or send them to AP Stat if they got at least an 80 in Alg2Trig. </p>
<p>We used to have regular high school level calculus but that was done away with because of lack of school funding. </p>
<p>Students can take AP Calc and AP Stat simultaneously.</p>
<p>A little about myself: I was always a good math student throughout my life; it was my best subject. I placed out of algebra and had geometry first year of high school. I didn’t do so well first term because I didn’t like the teacher’s teaching methods but I did pretty well during the second term with proofs(with another teacher). In sophomore year, I went onto Alg2, but I had forgotten all my algebra by then and I just had a mental block I suppose, thinking math was impossible. The teacher acted really strict too, so I guess that made me think like that too. It was actually the first and only class I ever failed in my life. I was forced to take remedial Alg2 called “PreAlg2Trig” that spring (which helped, but the class went extremely slow, to the point it was a joke 95, all we did was just the beginning topics of Alg2), and then next year I took the Alg2Trig course, this time doing excellently. I loved the Trig part especially. I always stayed late in school, doing homework and then doing practice problems for tests and things like that. I went onto AP Calc AB senior year and so far I’ve been doing great! (I also took a precalc class on the side at a nearby college to be safe but I didn’t do too well there because I made many small mistakes on exams which cost me BIG points. The class didn’t cover as many topics as the one in my school because it was a single semester class, but the exams were harder and graded much less leniently. The one thing I vividly remember having the most trouble with was finding the roots of higher degree polynomials using the theorems. Nevertheless, learning things like piecewise defined functions and asymptotes helped with calc, but I would have been just as fine in AP Calc w/o having taken this precalc class on the side). Something else that’s funny is that I also am taking AP Stat this year and the teacher that failed me is my teacher! She’s a new AP Stat teacher but is best friends with the old AP Stat teacher who is still teaching the course (there are now 2 AP Stat teachers instead of 1, each teaching three classes) so they share worksheets and go at a similar pace (usually one teacher will be no more than 2 lessons away from where the other is). She knows I’m way better at math now though, and I’m one of the better students in AP Stat too, haha. 
So it’s all good. (:</p>
<p>U of MN Talented Youth Mathematics Program, which starts for most students in 7th grade but can start in 6th.</p>
<p>7th: Alg 1, Alg 2
8th: Geometry, Analysis (trig, functions, probability, etc.)
9-11: Single variable calculus, multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, diff eq
(somewhat integrated and with an emphasis on rigor and theory)
12th: Possible to take advanced topics</p>
<p>[MathCEP</a> - UMTYMP](<a href=“About UMTYMP | College of Science and Engineering”>About UMTYMP | College of Science and Engineering)</p>
<p>6th Grade: Algebra 1 (Regular or Honors)
7th Grade: Geometry (Regular or Honors)
8th Grade: Algebra 2 (Regular or Honors)</p>
<p>Freshman year - Precalculus (Honors)
Sophomore year - AP Calculus AB
Junior Year - AP Calculus BC
Senior Year - AP Statistics or Multivariable Calculus (community college)</p>
<p>My school offers this as the highest advanced math plan there is, other than taking higher math as dual enrollment at the local community college. About 100 students more or less are taking this advanced math course. I am currently doing it at the moment.</p>
<p>7th grade: Alg 1
8th grade: Geometry
9th grade: Alg 2/ Trig
10th grade: Precalc
11th grade: IB Math SL
12th grade: AP BC Calc</p>
<p>I tried to skip to BC Calc for 11th grade but they said it wouldn’t really help me since there arent any local colleges to dual enroll at for multivariable calc :/</p>
<p>7th: Pre-Algebra
8th: Algebra I
9th: Geometry
10th: Algebra II/Trigonometry
11th: AB Calc
12th: BC Calc</p>
<p>I go to a charter school for math, so it’s very rigorous</p>
<p>9th grade: Accelerated Geometry and Accelerated PreCal
10th grade: AP Calc (AB or BC)
11th grade: Georgia Tech Calc 2/3 or Advanced Calc 2
12th grade: Differential Equations and Number Theory</p>
<p>My school has a pretty basic math sequence, but there is vast majority of freshmen and such who do VERY poorly in algebra in 8th grade and have to redo it in high school. And also there are 4 middle schools, 2 go to one high school, and the other 2 go to the other. At three of the four, they offer a few students a year to skip general 6th grade mathematics and so they take honors geometry at the high school while still in middle school (guess which middle school I went to -_-) So here’s the “normal” sequence</p>
<p>8th grade: Honors Algebra I
9th grade: Honors Geometry
10th grade: Honors Algebra II
11th grade: HonorsTrig/Pre Calc. (I personally was fine with him, but the vast majority don’t take honors because they believe the teacher cannot teach)
12th grade: AP Calculus AB</p>
<p>they used to offer AP stats, but of course when I was supposed to take it in 11th grade, they cancelled it because the students really took advantage of the teacher.</p>
<p>Fastest possible:</p>
<p>9th: Geo/Alg 2 Course, sign up to self study Precalc over the summer
10th: Calc BC
11th: Multivariable
12th: Any online course you want, and they pay for it. =D</p>
<p>This is what I’m taking:</p>
<p>9th- Honors-precalc/trig
10th- ap calc bc
11th- multivariable calculus
12th- linear algebra/differential equations</p>
<p>9th: Geometry
10th: Algebra II with Trig
11th: AP Calculus BC
12th: IB Math HL (AP Statistics is also offered, but only 2 are taking it this year)</p>
<p>There are around 2 people every year who come from a small private school that offers geometry in 8th grade. Those kids usually follow this sequence:</p>
<p>9th: Algebra II with Trig
10th: AP Calculus BC
11th: AP Statistics
12th: IB Math HL</p>
<p>My school has nothing but honors classes, so geometry and algebra are given the “Honor” label.</p>
<p>My school really doesn’t have extremely advanced math. There are 3 tracks: slow, average, and fast. It is all based upon a test you take at the end of 5th grade.</p>
<p>Slow</p>
<p>6th- math 76 (7th and 6th grade level)
7th- math 87
8th- pre algebra
9th- algebra 1 (A)
10th- algebra 1 (B)
11th- geometry
12th- algebra 2</p>
<p>State law now requires students to have 4 years of math, so those students in the slow track took “senior math” and “personal finance” which are basically repeat/made up classes to fill a block with a math credit</p>
<p>Average
6th- math 87 (A)
7th- math 87 (B)
8th- pre algebra
9th- algebra 1
10th- geometry (H)
11th- algebra 2 (H)
12th- senior math/personal finance/ pre cal</p>
<p>Fast
6th- math 87
7th- pre algebra
8th- algebra 1 (H)
9th- geometry pre-ap
10th- algebra 2 pre-ap
11th- pre-cal pre-ap
12th- AP calculus AB</p>
<p>Out of 75+ kids in each grade, only 5-10 ever complete the fast track.</p>
<p>When I was in high school many years ago, the standard math sequence was:</p>
<p>9: Algebra I
10: Geometry
11: Algebra II
12: Precalculus</p>
<p>Less than 10% of the students started Algebra I in 8th grade (offered in junior high school); these were mostly the same students taking the honors versions of the above courses. These “one year ahead” students then took Calculus in 12th grade. At the time, only single class of AP Calculus BC was offered. At the time, one student every few years started Algebra I in 7th grade (and took Geometry in high school in 8th grade while attending junior high for other courses) and reached Calculus in 11th grade.</p>
<p>A few years later, as more students got to be “one year ahead”, an AP Calculus AB class was added, giving students a choice of AB or BC after completing Precalculus.</p>
<p>Now, it appears that the number of “one year ahead” and “two years ahead” students in math is much greater than back then. They have added AP Statistics as well as school-supported options to take additional math courses at the local community college.</p>
<p>I should note that they’ve changed the freshman and sophomore classes this year, and this was just the track that my class took: </p>
<p>Freshman year - Algebra and Geometry
Sophomore year - Geometry
Junior Year - Math 12 Honors (precalc and trig)
Senior Year - AP Calculus AB AND/OR AP Statistics AND/OR AP Computer Science</p>
<p>Basically, what happens is that the freshman have their own classes, the sophomores are integrated with the regular-level juniors, the juniors take the senior honors course and the seniors take electives. I should mention that it’s possible to do this slightly out of order. I have a friend who took calculus in tenth grade and stats in eleventh, but he’s clearly the exception to the rule. </p>
<p>I would say that about twenty to forty people complete the accelerated course, depending on your definition. Some people would say that unless you take Calc, you don’t complete it, but I guess it depends on your position.</p>
<p>I go to school in Georgia, so our maths are a little different. We call them Math 1-4. Each math has a combination of all of the concepts with a little more heavy focus on one. </p>
<p>Freshman: Accel. Math 1 (heaviest focus is on Algebra)
Sophomore: Accel. Math 2 (this one is really spread out. a lot of research stuff, data, stat, and pre-trig)
Junior: Accel. Math 3 (mostly trig and pre-cal, with a little complicated algebra)
Senior: Accel. Math 4 (pre-cal i think), AP Calc AB, AP Stat, or a class at our local college.</p>
<p>Most of the honors kids take those classes and usually choose AP Calc for their senior year.
I, however, am cool and took Math 1 when I was in 8th grade, then kind of accelerated through Math 2 & 3, and now it’s my sophomore year and I’m in AP Calc. </p>
<p>I’m surviving, barely.
:D</p>
<p>@ucb: the current total number of seniors taking calculus is less than 20% of those graduating and college-bound (and this estimate is likely generous). Although this is a lot more than even 10 years ago, this means that 80% of h.s. graduates are still taking the math sequence you listed (or even a sequence ending in Algebra II).</p>
<p>BTW, the percent of those getting 1’s on the AP Calc AB test has also increased significantly in the last 10 years, from about 15% to about 30%.</p>
<p>For my school district you can take Algebra I as a zero hour in 6th or 7th grade, followed by Geometry, Algebra II, Precalculus, Calc AB/BC, then dual enrollment for Calc 3, Differential Equations, and Matrix Theory with the local state university.</p>