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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an AP math teacher, I would never suggest AB followed by BC for a typical student.  It's just unnecessary.  Either you have no intention of majoring in math/science fields so you should take AB and be done with it, or you want to do it so you should take BC.

The only situation where I'd recommend AB followed by BC is a weaker math student who was intent on going into a math related major.  I have one student this year on that path because he struggled a lot in precalc as a sophomore (C grade) but is intent he wants to be a civil engineer.  He's in my AB this year and I will recommend him for BC next year. The rest of my AB juniors are taking stats next year because that is far more useful to their intended majors of psychology/political science/etc.[/quote]

So what do you recommend for a student who is on track for AP Pre-Calc in 10th but not interested in doing MV in 12th... just take BC in 11th and then AP Stats in 12th instead?  Wouldn't that gap year from advanced math make it more challenging to resume MV in freshman year college?[/quote]

And thus the downside of the extreme acceleration.  It's great for the kid who wants to keep going forward, but the kid who doesn't hits a wall.

Why don't they want to do MV in 12th if they have to take it in college?  My true recommendation absent a really good reason would be to suck it up and take MV.[/quote]

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