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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP pre-calc is a fraction of the material of a current honors ore-calc class in any major district and definitely private school.  It's a super dumbed down class.[/quote]

You keep posting this yet my kids teacher that teaches both AP Precalc and AP Calc, really likes the AP Precalc curriculum.  I don’t exactly know why, but certainly it’s not because the kids are learning less.[/quote]

I think what’s going on is that private schools are telling their parents that they teach beyond the exam, without telling them that the AP curriculum itself also goes beyond the exam.

Only Units 1-3 of 4 are on the exam, which is a little counterintuitive but makes sense if, as the College Board itself says, the whole point is not college credit but to provide curriculum support to school systems like DCPS that don’t have the resources of MCPS or Sidwell. At a school like JR where there’s a sizable cohort of students going on to Calc BC and school goes on for more than a month after the AP exams, teachers are very likely to take advantage of that optional fourth unit. [/quote]

Is the problem here really that a curriculum for precalculus, a topic that is well over 100 years old, is too expensive for a school district to obtain?

This is what's wrong with USA [/quote]

My HS in the 90s never offered a class called Precalc.  The normal progression was for kid to take algebra II and trig at the same time junior year and then AP calc senior year.  I don’t consider myself a math whiz but did fine on the AP Calc BC test (a 4…again, I never pursued higher math).

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Yeah sometimes I wonder if all these private schools and rich school systems teaching so much math in precalc are just teaching less and less math in Algebra II. [/quote]

I took precalc and then got a 5 in Calc BC, so maybe precalculus is good for something...[/quote]

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