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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also perfectly acceptable option to do AB junior year and BC senior year (this is from multiple sources).[/quote]

My kid took AB as a junior and BC as a senior.  Because much of the material is the same/similar, he thought he got a good foundation doing it that way.  He is currently a Math/CS double major at William and Mary.[/quote]

Same. Our district highly recommends taking AB first, then BC. [b]Typically there is only 1 kid out of 40 that didn't take AB  first.[/b]  Because of that, BC is taught differently, with the AB portion "covered" as review the first 4-5 weeks, then moving onto the new material.  Unless you have a true budding genius on hand, most kids can benefit from doing it that way.  It's much better to have a strong foundation in Calculus if kid is headed into Engineering/Math/a major that actually uses it.    My kid is extremely strong in math but BC was the first they struggled with. Finished strong and got 5 on the AP test, so starting in Calc 3 this fall at uni.[/quote]

How do you know this?  Are you stalking the entire class?[/quote]

This seems very strange to me as well.  I am a math teacher in Fairfax County, and the majority of students who earned As and Bs in Honors Precalculus go on to take Calc BC the following year.  Taking AB first and then BC second is very repetitive and not for strong math students.  (Honors Precalculus mostly covers the "A" section of Calculus.)[/quote]

+1. Not at my kids school in MCPS. Taking AB then BC is not the best use of time. Time AP Stats instead. [/quote]

There are colleges which don't recognize AP stats as a strong enough Math to be closing HS education on. UBC for one. [/quote]

I doubt that but whatever [/quote]

[b]AP stats is definately an easier math course. [/b] My kid took AP Calc AB junior year and easily got an A.  Took BC and stats senior year.  Stats had a 99.5% without any studying/work.  BC got a B/B- (teacher makes it difficult but everyone gets 5s) and earned a 5 on AP test. But unless you are going into engineering/hard core stem, I'd argue that Statistics is a more more useful course for anyone, even potential humanities majors.  Business/psych/premed/healthcare/etc all typically require stats courses[/quote]

Stat is a different math then Calc. [/quote]

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