basis math levels

[Anonymous]

from a different thread. How many basis dc 8th graders take AP calculus each year? It seems so early.

[Anonymous]

No 8th graders took calculus this past year. Some took AP Pre-Calc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No 8th graders took calculus this past year. Some took AP Pre-Calc.

+1. There were about a half a dozen 8th graders in AP Pre-Calculus.

[Anonymous]

BASIS has changed its math sequence. Most students now take calculus AB in 10th grade. Very few students take calc AB in 9th grade. I think there's also a sequence option where students take calc AB in 11th grade.

[Anonymous]

Correct

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS has changed its math sequence. Most students now take calculus AB in 10th grade. Very few students take calc AB in 9th grade. I think there's also a sequence option where students take calc AB in 11th grade.

So do they take Calc BC at all or after AB?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BASIS has changed its math sequence. Most students now take calculus AB in 10th grade. Very few students take calc AB in 9th grade. I think there's also a sequence option where students take calc AB in 11th grade.

So do they take Calc BC at all or after AB?

AB is required but BC isn’t. So you can take BC if you want or something else like AP Stats.

[Anonymous]

Some person on the Walls thread claimed that they personally knew 3 different BASIS kids who took the Calculus AP exam in 8th grade, failed it, and personally reported their failing scores to that PP. The same person also implied that BASIS math teachers were bemoaning all of the unprepared 8th graders in calculus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some person on the Walls thread claimed that they personally knew 3 different BASIS kids who took the Calculus AP exam in 8th grade, failed it, and personally reported their failing scores to that PP. The same person also implied that BASIS math teachers were bemoaning all of the unprepared 8th graders in calculus.

I’m not that person and I don’t have kid at Basis. But that would not be a big surprise to me. Basis rushes all the kids to do too much AP and too early. This would be a big weakness in math if you don’t have a good solid foundation to begin with.

I suspect that kids at Basis are not doing well on the AP exam in math because of it and why they changed and slowed down the math curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some person on the Walls thread claimed that they personally knew 3 different BASIS kids who took the Calculus AP exam in 8th grade, failed it, and personally reported their failing scores to that PP. The same person also implied that BASIS math teachers were bemoaning all of the unprepared 8th graders in calculus.

We are at BASIS and these seems so implausible. The vast majority of kids take Geometry/Algebra II in 8th grade... that's the sequence. Don't trust everything you read here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some person on the Walls thread claimed that they personally knew 3 different BASIS kids who took the Calculus AP exam in 8th grade, failed it, and personally reported their failing scores to that PP. The same person also implied that BASIS math teachers were bemoaning all of the unprepared 8th graders in calculus.

We are at BASIS and these seems so implausible. The vast majority of kids take Geometry/Algebra II in 8th grade... that's the sequence. Don't trust everything you read here!

We are also at BASIS. The most advanced 8th graders this past year took AP Pre-calculus. There were no more than a half dozen of them. The most advanced 9th graders were in this same class— no 9th graders were accelerated at any point so none were in Calculus AB this year. So this poster on the Walls thread is either confused or they are talking about some kid many years back.

[Anonymous]

Calc AB in 8th or 9th means years of scrambling to get math classes through dual enrollment. I don't know if Basis is set up for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some person on the Walls thread claimed that they personally knew 3 different BASIS kids who took the Calculus AP exam in 8th grade, failed it, and personally reported their failing scores to that PP. The same person also implied that BASIS math teachers were bemoaning all of the unprepared 8th graders in calculus.

We are at BASIS and these seems so implausible. The vast majority of kids take Geometry/Algebra II in 8th grade... that's the sequence. Don't trust everything you read here!

We are also at BASIS. The most advanced 8th graders this past year took AP Pre-calculus. There were no more than a half dozen of them. The most advanced 9th graders were in this same class— no 9th graders were accelerated at any point so none were in Calculus AB this year. So this poster on the Walls thread is either confused or they are talking about some kid many years back.

This is all correct, the current cohort of 9th graders had no one advance to the super accelerated track because all of 6th was covid/virtual learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calc AB in 8th or 9th means years of scrambling to get math classes through dual enrollment. I don't know if Basis is set up for that.

You can see the curriculum. They list BC calc, multivariable, and AP stats. That's three years more math. There's also an AP CS class. I don't think students lack for things to keep them busy. It's the slower track that confuses me more. Why accelerate and do algebra 2 and geometry in 8th grade if you're going to drag out precalculus for three years?

[Anonymous]

Huh?

AP Precalc in 9th, AP Calc AB in 10th, AP Calc BC in 11th, and Multivar in 12th.