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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look in the mid-late 80s I left HS with Algebra 2. That was considered a monumental fail at the time. I went to a Russell Group UK university and have 2 post-graduate degrees I picked up thereafter.

But my kids are now in public HS and the idea that AP Calc AB is the baseline for HS graduates has been drummed into us parents, and it's kind of difficult for me to see past that.[/quote]

It's important for parents to realize the content of courses has changed with this drum beat.  The goal is now get college ready students through calc by graduation, but that means some of the difficult topics that once were introduced in an algebra 1 have been moved to later classes because the algebra 1 students are now much younger. E.g. when I took algebra in 9th grade (the horror) we learned exponential functions and logarithms, including the properties of changing bases, etc. My kids saw the graph of an exponential function in algebra 1 and learned about exponential growth. They saw the graph of the logarithm in algebra II, they learned about the properties of those functions and how to manipulate them symbolically for the first time in pre-calc. [b]At this point pre-calc is necessary for a quality high school education, and is about the same as finishing at algebra 2 or trig a generation ago.[/b][/quote]

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