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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is in 8th grade. She wants to go to the IB program at RM. [b]She enjoys english and history class but doesn't like math[/b]. She also really enjoys her foreign language and she skipped level 2 of the language. Her spring map r was a 262 and her fall was 253 (don't know what happened there). Her extracurriculars are okay (should have pushed her more lol). However, I have heard that this program is very stressful and has a lot of work. It is also very hard to get in. Do you think it is a good fit for her and what are her chances of gettting in? (I'm hoping for at least 70%). [/quote]

IB kids take high level math. it's not a STEM program but that doesn't mean IB is weak on STEM subjects. [i]My kids (and many of their friends) took AP Cal BC in their junior years followed by high level IB math in senior year[/i][/quote]

How did they do that? The IB math classes are two-year classes.

[i]Mathematics: applications and interpretation SL
Mathematics: applications and interpretation HL
Mathematics: analysis and approaches SL
Mathematics: analysis and approaches HL[/i]

https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/curriculum/mathematics/
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[b]The "two year" math is not taking IB HL math for two years.[/b] Rather, it is about taking the IB math exam after year 2.  IB HL Math covers 2 years of math.

My DC did the same:  Jr year AP BC Calc; senior year IB HL math and MVC/diffeq. Then took IB HL math exam senior year.[/quote]

Yes, it is. You take IB math for two years. Then you take the IB math exam. That's what makes them two-year classes.[/quote]
? My kid was at RMIB last year, took the HL IB math exam.  They did not take HL math for 2 years.   This is the pathway they took:

IBAAF
IB Pre calc
AP BC Calc
HL math & MVC

Maybe you are confusing the prior years IB label math classes with HL math.[/quote]

[b]I think what PP is saying is that the AP BC calc class serves as the first year for IB HL math.[/b] The exam covers two years worth of content which is taught to you over those two years regardless of what the class is called.[/quote]

I guess so, at RM? Because elsewhere, you take IB HL math (or IB SL math) for two years. And yes, the IB exam covers two years of content.[/quote]
Which IB program in MCPS does this, where you take two years of IB HL math, and not the prescribed pathway from above?[/quote]

At Kennedy, IB HL Math is 2 years and the class is called Stats & Calc. The first year is equivalent of AP Stats while the 2nd year is (roughly) equivalent of AP Calc AB.[/quote]

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