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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is helpful, but my senior is in MV this year and she and her friends have found it a lot easier than BC. It’s a semester long college course, so spread out over the year it’s “pretty chill” according to them. [/quote]
Multivariable is typically easier than calc 2. It’s just calc 1 with 3 dimensions. My DS ranked it:

Precal > Calc 2>> Calc 3> Calc 1> Stats
Where > means harder. He says there’s a lot more difficulty in Calc 2, and his school’s precal course was just terribly difficult.[/quote]

This is an accurate ranking. Pre-calc is the heart of HS math. When algebra 1 was taught to older students it was the hurdle, but now those topics have been put off until pre-calc. At the same time pre-calc is laying the theoretical groundwork for calc. Multivar is not three times the work, it's revisiting the simplest problems in more variables. Setting up the problem, is the solution.

For the same reason, schools really don't care about MV. Student's who don't make it to calculus probably won't catch up. Students who somehow take a break from math senior year, look weak. Beyond that it doesn't matter.[/quote]

This person forgot the vector field part of multivariable calculus.[/quote]

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