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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, the math thing is crazy these days. My kid is at an Ivy and was given a math placement test at the beginning of freshman year. He took Calculus AB in high school and was placed into Calculus 2. However it turns out that almost all his classmates took BC in high school. Except most did not actually learn the BC because they are now getting Cs and Ds in this course (the average on the exams has been in the 60s).  
My kid has had two 99% so far and he is a humanities kid. He attended a grade-deflating, private high school which rarely accelerated kids in math.

How are these kids getting 60% on material that they already took in high school?  And yet of course they got high As in high school as they got into an Ivy.
  
The state of high school math education is worrisome. 
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DS’s math teacher tells everyone to retake calc 2 in college, even if they get a 5 on the AP, because apparently AP is not teaching enough calculus curriculum anymore. College is more rigorous about calculus content[/quote]

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