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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi school math teacher at an IB school. Please don’t let your child do this. While they technically can, the IB math classes are no joke and really rely on the foundations from algebra two. This year‘s group of kids is struggling just because of having to take algebra to online. I can only imagine how much more they be struggling if they only had five weeks of the class. Plus then what? They can’t take the IB exam until senior year anyway, so they’ll finish up the IB curriculum either junior year and then have to study intensely all over again to take the test in 12th grade, or they’ll have to skip a year between the two levels of IB math, and fill it with something like AP stats or computer science or a year of calculus or whatever your school offers. I currently have a couple students sitting in one of those elective math classes as juniors with nothing to take senior year. There’s truly no benefit to doing this.[/quote]

I’m another math teacher and they can take the IB exams in 11th grade. That must be the rule at your school, specifically. I agree with everything else you said. Alg II is foundational and should not be rushed in the summer. So many of my students are struggling this year in the IB classes because of a lack of foundation. [/quote]

They can take SL exams junior year. Not HL. It’s an IB policy.[/quote]

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