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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I find it insufferable when I read the other DCUM boards with the parents from DMV who think their little snowflakes are the greatest because they are taking calculus in 10th grade or something similar. NYC kids do just fine without being super accelerated. And, more importantly, counter to what they believe, their kids are no smarter than NYC kids.[/quote]

The other end of this is that there are only a handful of high schools anywhere in the city that offer anything beyond BC Calculus - usually something in the multivariate calculus / differential equations / linear algebra vein - and even if your school does, since it's not standardized, it doesn't produce any big obvious college test score and it's unlikely to line up neatly with your college's math curriculum like BC Calculus does. So the benefits to finishing your school's math curriculum a year early are iffy at best.

(I was skipped a year in math, took BC in 11th and ended up spending a year abroad in 12th and not taking math at all, which was good because there wasn't any math left for me if I'd stayed - the most they could offer was having a math teacher spend 20 minutes a week with me to answer questions / assign me work in some college textbook)[/quote]

I did something similar in suburbia many years ago when it was not common (not bragging - I'm nothing special). Senior year I did some odds and ends non-traditional math but not a next step. Then I didn't take math my freshman year of college. So when I took multi-variable fall of sophomore year it was not pretty as I was very rusty.

To your point, I do not think that at the schools where advanced math is offered the teachers are very qualified. It is likely helpful to be exposed to it, but I would likely want to retake them in college.[/quote]

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