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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone successfully had their kid double up on algebra 2 and geometry in 10th grade at JR? In terms of college admissions, is it better to top out at pre-calc in high school with As, or push further to AP calc with a B? [/quote]

Ugh, I did this in high school a generation ago and it was no joy. But if it's the only way you can get to a calculus AP your senior year, at least it's an option.[/quote]

ugh. i doubled up on trig and pre-calc freshman year so i could do differential equations senior year. I'm kind of staggered that we now expect kids to top-out at pre-calc?! wow.
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I got out of the advanced math track after 9th grade expressly to avoid calc in HS and went to a top 25 school (and never took calc). I’m kind of staggered you don’t realize that there are lots of different people in the world with lots of different experiences.[/quote]

it's not that i don't think that there are lots of different experiences. mostly i was trying to make the point that there was a standard path for me to get to calc III in public school without any doubling up at all, but it appears that the math curriculum in dcps is structured to make it hard to even get to calculus without doubling up somewhere.

i have no idea if my kiddo will find math as engrossing as i did-- probably not, and if they do i guess we'll evaluate our options when we get there.

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