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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just FYI, Deal has said that after this school year, they will no longer be allowing any students to double up on math, per DCPS policy. So that policy may well extend to JR too, even if they allowed doubling up in the past. [/quote]

Thanks. So the only option if my kid wants to go beyond pre-calc in high school is to take summer math at some point? [/quote]

I am not trying to complicate your decision...but again, I don't think they care in HS if you decide to take two "math electives" at the same time.  Pre-Calc, Stat, Calc AB and Calc BC are considered electives and not required Math.

If you want to follow the progression and not double up Pre Calc and Calc, then yes you should plan to take say Geometry over the Summer.  DCPS has an approved vendor list (many, maybe all virtual), but you want to make sure you get sign-off from the school / DCPS prior to registering.  [/quote]

What counselor or admin is allowing kids to take PreCalc and AP Calc at the same time? That makes absolutely no sense.  And your elective logic makes no sense.  Spanish III and Spanish IV are both electives.  It doesn’t mean you take them at the same time.  There are sequences to courses.

This is NOT the same as taking Geometry and Algebra II the same year.  That happens pretty frequently in high schools.

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I am not employing any elective "logic".  Simply stating that since these classes are electives, there are often no institutional restrictions to taking them together.  I bet a kid could in fact take Spanish III and Spanish IV at the same time if that is what they wanted to do.  Just so happens it occurs more frequently in Math.

FWIW, the kids I know that double up on Precalc anc Calc are advanced in Math.  Not sure why they did not accelerate earlier (and some were transfers).  Many had already had exposure to PreCalc, but not in a way that gave them DCPS credit.  [b]Honors Precalc is also not a heavy lift (the new AP Precalc may be more?)[/b].  These kids wanted to be done with Calc by Junior year (they all got a 4 or 5 on the AP Calc BC test) and then take AP Stats Senior year (which is a much easier class).

Again, I am not a proponent of this progression, but simply conveying what I know some kids have done historically.[/quote]

In case anyone is interested, I can speak to this: one kid took honors pre-calc last year (before AP was offered), and other is in AP pre-calc this year. AP does seem materially different, according to them—heavier on the calc prep, less alg2/trig-focused. Honors pre-calc was pretty easy for my kid who has never considered math a strength; other kid in AP now who is very strong in math seems to find it a little more challenging than prior math classes. [/quote]

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