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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at BTSN tonight and learned that students who take on grade level pre-calculus (so not honors) will not be prepared to take Calculus AB the next year. This greatly concerns me. I understood that dropping out of the honors track wouldn't prepare my child for BC, but I thought it would prepare her for AB.

All of her friends scared her and told her that honors would be so much work so she dropped down, but now I am really upset for letting her. How is it that this course was not designed to prepare students? SHould I force her back in the honors track even though she doesn't want to (her math is strong, but she does not "like" it)? I'm a very upset parent tonight![/quote]
Regular precalculus leads to Calculus with Applications. Some students then take AP AB Calculus. It’s a slower pace, which means that any particular course doesn’t cover as much material as the Honors version. I’m not sure why this is a surprise. I’m also not sure why you are so anxious about your kid getting to Calculus in high school, if they were already uncertain enough about math to drop to regular.

This isn’t a crisis.[/quote]

+1. Make your kid switch if you feel so strongly about this OP, but your kid is approaching adulthood and is strongly signaling she doesn’t want to do this.  The school year just started-this is not a big deal. But you seem confused-pre calc does prepare a student for calculus with applications, but not AP calculus which is a more rigorous course.[/quote]

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