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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no value to taking AP Pre-Calc, OP, if your kid is moving on to better things in math. College admissions officers know it's just an exam for those who max out at that level. One less thing to do off your list.

Your kid needs a tutor for AP Calc BC, and a center who can allow them to test. So get going on those two things.

After AP Calc BC, does your kid have a plan? He needs to show he can take post-AP math courses every year after that, otherwise all this acceleration comes to naught.

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AP/DE Precalc is not a choice, it's the prescribed course (and the only offered course) on the track. There's no more Precalculus Honor or similar. She has to take it or else she wouldn't be on the "most rigorous track" of what's offered at her school.

She also doesn't need a tutor for Calc BC.  With where she's currently at, and if she gets to sit through a school year full of practice in 10th grade, she'll be (more than) fine. I did both the AB and BC material on Khan myself, along with some example FRQs and multi-choice tests, and the material (like all school math we've encountered in the US school system so far) is rather shallow. Put differently, I didn't see a single question that rose to the level of what I would consider problem solving.  It's nearly all plug-and-chug, and the rest are maybe one or rarely two-step problems. So we're going to have to supplement in any event like we've been doing all along since kindergarten.

After Calc BC we'll see. Governor's school is maybe an option, or else external courses at local colleges. It's not ideal. But right now the question is how to properly plan to avoid having to sit for 2 years in a Calc AB/BC course sequence that appears to unnecessarily stretch material over that time frame. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it, and I don't think it'll be for naught. There's a world of math and science calculus opens up.
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