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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For everyone quibbling about the math courses in the different schools offering the IB diploma - take a moment and recognize that there is flexibility within the two-year IB courses for the order and grouping of topics, as long as the overall course outcomes are met.

https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/curriculum/mathematics/ - scroll down to see the subject briefs with topics and hours for each of the two courses offered:
- Mathematics: analysis and approaches SL & HL
- Mathematics: applications and interpretation SL & HL

Every school offering the IB Diploma has to offer at least one of these courses to test in 12th grade. Depending on the school and the number of students, there are variations in which courses are offered and what testing level. So yes, in this way the programs can differ.

But even for schools offering both courses at both SL & HL level, they could have different ways of breaking up the content over two years and have different scheduling plans to offer combined courses with the general student population. This is just a difference in experience, not actual content of the course. RM specifically groups the content for the Analysis HL course to have one year be the same as AP BC Calculus, which is open to all students for scheduling purposes. The remainder of the HL content is in year-2 of the sequence. Just because the 11th grade course isn't specifically labeled as an IB course doesn't mean it isn't part of the 2-year course content.[/quote]

This is DCUM, they don’t want to hear about flexibility or acknowledge that a kid at RM and a kid at Kennedy earned the same IB Diploma. It sullies their world view about socioeconomic class and race/ethnicity.

OP might be interested as she doesn’t seem infected by the DCUM mindset yet.[/quote]

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