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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What math does the extended math course cover? Is it calculus just slowed down bc are 5 days v 3? Or is it going backwards and is covering algebra or geometry or algebra II? If in pages before, sorry to ask - I admittedly only read about half answers before posting here.[/quote]

It is slowed-down Math MA which is essentially precalculus. The new course MAS is slowed down precalc to cover Alg/geo more thoroughly. Harvard’s version of a normal calculus sequence starts after math MA: the vast majority of freshman for decades start past math MA, some well past. The new course is a slowed down version of the slowest start they used to have. 
The need for this course reflects a need for a course for a growing larger and less prepared group of freshman who are at the bottom of the typical entering harvard range that are being admitted: it has nothing to do with rushing through calc to get to vector calc in HS, which even at ivies remains the top group of entering freshman math experience. It may be 1/3 or more now and used to be less, but that is not the group that math MAS or even math MA is for.  Those kids would just repeat part or all of the regular calc sequence. [/quote]

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