Reply to calc BC in 8th grade at Takoma Park Middle?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "calc BC in 8th grade at Takoma Park Middle?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dc (now a 12th grader, so this was several years ago) had a friend whose parents wanted him to be able to test out of Alg II and move straight to precalculus in 8th grade, and MCPS would not let him skip the Alg II class no matter his skill level, the parents were told that taking the class was a grad requirement. So I can’t think of how a student would be able to be in calc as an 8th grader. [/quote]

The only way I would know to do it is to take summer classes for credit and then you'd have to go to the high school for the calc class.[/quote]

Students who take Algebra 1 as 6th graders would have to take their 8th grade math class at their high school anyway. There are buses to take them to first period math at the high school, and bus them back to first period at their middle school, since that works with the staggered starts of middle and high school. It works well if there are several students of the same school all taking the same class.

And yes, Algebra 2 is a requirement. You can skip something else, but you have to take Algebra 2 in some form or another. Usually kids skip Pre-calc.

[/quote]

Why skip pre cal?  [/quote]

For students with an interest in math, who take a class on the side and want to skip ahead to AP math classes and beyond. This is to show colleges that they're serious about a STEM major. Selective universities will have more in-depth math courses for undergrads than anything taught by the College Board, but it's to demonstrate interest and stand out.
[/quote]

This is pathetic and misinformed. Most serious stem kids are accepted into engineering programs and serious math and sciences having taken Calc in 12th grade -- meaning college accepted them without even seeing what their calc grades are.  You are in a race to nowhere.[/quote]

There is a stem crazy poster who keeps posting this non-sense and its simply not true.  They need to justify why their choices are better.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics