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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for sharing - and congrats on your children’s accomplishments. Did your oldest and youngest take advanced math in elementary or honors math in middle? Im not too familiar with how the IB program works for math but I assume it’s all advanced classes?[/quote] IB is similar to AP. They are advanced classes but a part of a larger International Baccalaureate program. Kids take a specific set of course and exams in order to earn an IB diploma. It is meant to be more similar to the type of degree that European students earn when they finish secondary school (I think secondary is similar to high school in terms of age). Any way, IB students need to have 5 years of math, take specific courses in Junior and Senior year, and they write an independent paper. The program is supposed to be more writing intensive then traditional US classes and pretty demanding. Lots of kids at IB school will take some IB classes and specific IB tests without completing the full diploma. Advanced Placement classes, AP, are more flexible and offered in a larger number of subjects. They are not tied to a specific diploma. But most people think of AP and IB tests as being similar in terms of rigor. [/quote]
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