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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could MCPS just make a "Pre-Calc 1" and "Pre-Calc 2" two-year sequence? [/quote]

They [i]could[/i].  For the moment, it does not appear that they intend to do so.

If there [i]was[/i] such developed, they would need to overlap/preserve the current PreCalc options for a year so that those exiting from the three-year Algebra 1/Geometry/Algebra 2 would have something relevant to them at the same time that those (originally a year behind them) exiting the two-year Integrated Algebra 1 & 2 sequence.  And maybe develop a one-year accelerated PreCalc (combining PreCalc 1 & 2 like the current PreAlgebra combines Math 7 & Math 8) for those needing that greater pace.[/quote]

Hopefully they do. With this set up, a lot of kids will be taking Pre-Calc in 9th, right? And not all of them will be at schools that have post-Calc math. So unless they get rid of the requirement for 4 math credits in HS...[/quote]

MCPS is saying thatbis what dial enrollment is for.

They do not intent to have a two-year precalc sequence. They say the new integrated sequence will prepare kids for honors pre-calc becauee it arranged materials better than the current theee-year sequence. It will take more kids failing than do now for them to change their minds. Which will eventually happen. But watch out if your kids are caught up in the start of this rollout. [/quote]

If kids start this in 7th, without geometry at some schools they will not have enough math classes to graduate.[/quote]

There's going to be four different two-class math sequences offered at all schools for 11th and 12th graders.  So if they finish calc early they can do one of the others, like stats or data science.[/quote]

Unless you are a math-attuned student at one of the wealthy schools.  Then you'll be accessing post-Calc BC college-level courses like MVC, DE & LA right at your own school for your junior and senior year.[/quote]

It's not based on wealth; it's based on number of student able and willing to enroll in the course. [/quote]

You really have not been paying attention, have you?

Schools with greater needs associated with lack of wealth and difficulty with language have used their limited funding, which is not fully proportional to that need, more and more for those populations, particularly as test data shows widening gaps.  In doing so, they have reduced funding for such classes for students at those schools with higher academic need.  They have reinforced this by discouraging students from reaching for advanced options in the first place and imposing unnecessary prerequisite requirements, [i]even when there [b]are[/b] enough students able and willing to enroll in a course[/i].  (E.g., "I don't care what other schools allow.  Here we say Calc AB before Calc BC." -- BC incorporates AB, of course, just moving faster to cover the next level, but that approach lets them stretch it over two years so they don't have to offer more to advanced students).

The results?  Better students apply to magnets just to access what should be available at their home school, but few get in.  The marginal brain drain, meanwhile, is self-reinforcing, with the kicker of fewer helping provide examples to others combining with lack of awareness of options among the community, hampering the very progress among those not performing well which they seek to engender.[/quote]

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