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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  He was tested by the county at the beginning of 1st.  That year he was in a 3rd grade AAP math class. During Kindergarten, he was pulled out twice a week and the AART was using material 3 and 4 years ahead.  [/quote]

It's great that he's gotten support to be adequately challenged! Unfortunately my kids aren't that far ahead, but it sounds like you can get some information here. Don't forget that FCPS does dual-enrollment with George Mason through at least Differential Equations and Complex Analysis after AP Calc BC, so he's got a while before he tops out in this county.[/quote]
my child did algebra 1 in 6th, never took a summer course, and will be in ap calc bc next year in 11th.  all placements were recommended by their math teachers.  plans to take DE courses in senior year. [/quote]

Interesting - did your child take Calc AB as a sophomore rather than skipping straight to Calc BC?

If OP's child took that same track, they would be able to finish up with Diff Eq senior year.[/quote]
I had the same question. Maybe their school system requires a year of Calc AB before BC?

I have a question for those who "skipped straight to BC" - how many high school credits, and how many scheduled hours did your child spend when going "straight to BC?"
Is it 2 or 1?  (BC usually gives 8 semester hours of AP credit, so it would make sense to equate to 2 HS credit, like AP Physics C or AP Chemistry.)

In other words, when people say their kid went "straight to BC" did they complete BC in one year using 1/8th of their HS load, or was it in fact 1/4?  In other words, did they just compress it in one year instead of two?
For HS that limit the number of hours a child can take per year to n, did it count at 1/nth or 2/nth?  (Our HS has n=9 and that includes summer classes.)[/quote]

Calc BC is the standard 2-semester college course taught in 1 year, single period, at school.

Calc AB is a slower paced course that covers about 1.5 college semesters, designed for students who have not completed a pre-STEM precalculus course, or who intended for AB to be terminal calculus course for a non STEM major like marketing, or who are overwhelmed with other priorities and need to pump the brakes on math. [/quote]

If Calc BC yields 1 HS credit, what about AP Chemistry and AP Physics C?
Do they also count as only 1 HS credit each taught during 1 period (out of 8, I assume?)
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