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Why did you take Math 3 this year after already taking Precalculus last summer?

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I thought my child wouldn't be able to handle geometry over the summer, so I didn't sign him up. But he quickly learned geometry over the school year during 8th grade, and learned algebra 2 in the second semester of 8th grade year.

I'm not sure why I didn't sign him up for summer algebra 2 but I didn't, and instead enrolled him in AOPS precalculus during the summer after 8th grade.[/quote]
AoPS precalculus is not  as rigorous as TJ math 4 & 5. Without TJ math 4&5 or tj calc ab, taking on Tj calc bc may be challenging [/quote]
On what basis do you make this claim? I have worked through a large number of problems from the AoPS precalculus book. Many are very difficult, drawing from AIME and other past contests. A select few are from USAMO and/or other olympiads.[/quote]

AoPS has hard problems, but they focus on pure math puzzle problems, not engineering applications. You miss a lot if you only do AoPS. [/quote]
A word problem by definition is an application of mathematical concepts. As long as it highlights the how the math is used, it doesn't matter whether it's about engineering, horses, or flying sheep. I will also dispute your claim about missing a lot. It's far more likely that the opposite is true, where [b]there are many ideas found in AoPS which are not taught in the school classes[/b].[/quote]
likely when compared to base schools, but TJ rigor and application is at a whole different level. [/quote]
The rigor is definitely not on a whole different level. TJ Math 5 is simply equivalent to a good honors precalculus course. The below link contains the contents of recent TJ Math 5 sessions from the last few years. You can look at the material for yourself; you'll observe that most of the questions are standard one step type questions. TJ uses the Glencoe Precalculus book, which is fine but nothing particularly special. AoPS precalculus goes significantly deeper into the material by focusing on a lot of problem solving, unlike in Math 5. AoPS also covers complex numbers and linear algebra at a significantly deeper level. My impression is that the TJ math 5 curriculum tries to go too fast and wide, versus more slowly but in much greater depth. This is a general problem not just at TJ, but at most of the high school math classes. Many TJ students have had the same complaint about this.

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Do you have any more links to samples of TJ math? And isn't math 4/5 (precalculus) 36 weeks, whereas the AoPS precalculus class is 22 weeks?[/quote]
You can search on the realtalk tj site, this is where I found these. Yes, the online text based precalc course is 22 weeks which is quite fast, but of course a student could just self study from the book if they don't want that path. They could also take it at a slower pace via another method (AoPS academy, virtual aops site, and a few other places that teach using AoPS materials and likely teach it as a full school year).[/quote] What did you search to find that?[/quote]

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