I do not know that MCPS will accept the credit. Definitely check before looking in to it. |
GTFO. You must be new around here. |
Honors precalc is the hardest class at our DC private school. It was described as such by the math chairperson. My kid entered it in 9th (having been in the public track of algebra 1 in 6th). After a month he dropped down to honors Algebra 2. It's been light years easier. I would not rush either Algebra 2 or Pre-calc over the summer. My other kid took honors geometry through Hopkins CTY over the summer and that was doable. Even so the material was truncated over a year-long course. YMMW. |
+1 We had once looked at this and learned that getting credit through summer courses is generally less of an issue for credit recovery or catching up. It seemed that MCPS generally frowns upon parents trying to accelerate their kids for other reasons. I think they were worried about encouraging a rat race of parents pushing their kids into summer math classes to skip math classes in school. Also, it is pretty common for students to do both AP stat and AP calc even if they do precal in 10th. The prereq for AP stat is algebra 2. (In fact, there are students that graduate without AP calc but take AP stat.) OP, your DC can take AP stat anytime in 10th, 11th, or 12th grades, though it is more common to take it in 11th or 12th. |
You can take AP stats as an elective! No need to take as a math class senior year. |
My current junior took both AP Stats and honors precalc last year as a sophomore. Agree that AP Stats can be taken any time -- it's a decent amount of work but nothing that's too hard when doubled up with another math class.
AP Calc BC is a brutal course. My current college student is very strong in math and had to work his butt off in Calc BC his junior year to get As. He then took multivariate calc his senior year. This was at WJ -- not sure which W school OP was referring to -- but I concur that there's not a good reason to rush through precalc to get to BC sophomore year. |
Or they can do it for free on edx.org via university of Arizona. I would never pay 1800 for a generic pre calc class-especially if the child is a driven self learner. |
Well, I took the equivalent of that as a 20 year old in college…that seemed like a more appropriate age/level for such material. |
Who’s charging $1800?! |
MCPS does not accept credit for summer courses in the way OP is proposing.
They allow it for catching up to grade level or credit recovery / to improve a grade that was low. |
Because that’s what parents want now. Pushing their kids like this for no sane reason. |
If you wanted this path, should have gone to magnet. Blair and Poolesville offer this. |
Just think a lot about the future. A friend's kid did this but now they are having a hard time filling out her senior year schedule and apparently she needs to have math for the kind of colleges she wants. It's not a great long term plan. |
Do schools hold it against kids who literally run out of classes to take? |
Agree 1,000 percent with this! |