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[quote=Anonymous]Not at BCC, but in practice I'd assume only one classrooms of kids make it to MV senior year, even if five times that started out in IM in sixth.  There's nothing wrong with that, there are lots of ways to slow down during the HS sequence, and not that many students jump straight to BC from pre-calc, because math isn't their sole interest.  They can take a year of Calc with Apps, a non-AP intro to calculus, or Calc AB and then Calc BC, or in your case IB. That's not a failure, my DC is in Calc BC right now, and it is a slog. He's expected to do more work than a college calc class, yet there's also no depth.   It's all about stuffing a new algorithm into your head each night, and not at all about proof and conceptual understanding.  They're currently in techniques of integration--last night was integration by parts, tomorrow night integrating powers of trig functions.  Quiz by the end of the week.  Even though it was the first night of integration by parts, they were expected to use a table method, to speed up their actual calculations.  A motivated student is going to have nights where they say just tell me the necessary steps to memorize--there's no time for enjoyment.  But put in the effort, it's absolutely doable, as it's nothing but plug and chug, chug, chug.  This is the nature of AP and HS math.  Retake it in college.[/quote]

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