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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a good curriculum, it's just not accelerated.
It can't compare to the path  of students who start Algebra 2-3 years earlier and take 2-3 more years of math in high school. [/quote]

It’s a bad curriculum for strong math students interested in STEM majors. This is the problem with the one size fits all approach of the IB program, it just doesn’t work well for the top. AP is a la carte so there’s more flexibility to fit the needs of those students.[/quote]

You mean "pointy" , not "top".

Math is the easiest subject to learn independently, so it's pretty easy to crack open a book or an app to get a little ahead.
The top pointy math students don't learn math from AP. Most can't get accelerated enough in any school to match the pace they or their parents want.

But it is true that in IB world the solution to acceleration is starting the diploma a year early, and finishing high school a year early, instead of AP's "college courses in high school" to manipulate the college credit-counting scheme and then retaking core classes in college anyway. [/quote]

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