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[quote=Anonymous]If your child wants to take calculus in high school junior year, you want them taking IB Math Analysis sophomore year, calculus junior year, and analysis II SL/HL senior year.

Applications year 1 is not a full precalculus curriculum and does not adequately prepare for calculus.  It is a survey course with snippets of statistics and discrete math and precalc and trig.  After applications II calculus is possible.  Most kids who take applications 1 in 10th grade do AP stats junior year, though now that AP Precalculus is offered more are taking that too since it's a weighted credit.

Alternatively if they aren't a diploma candidate and are set on a stem adjacent degree in college, AP precalc/AP Calc AB/AP Stats is a valid choice too. Robinson offers all 3.

Applications is a nice course if your child really has no idea what kind of math they like (or they don't love pure math) since it does a bit of everything.  The AP route is better for the kid who is ready to commit to calculus and values the potential college credit.[/quote]

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