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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really not buying the premise of the student doing everything in 5 minutes in any class above Algebra. The claims about Calculus are just ridiculous.

I would be concerned about the depth of undestanding with that minimal level of effort.

Can the student prove all the statements in the class or just memorizing some shortcuts? Is the homework plug and chug or it involves complex applications of concepts?

I'd look into some enrichment if this indeed the case, there's absolutely no point in taking a class where you spend 5 minutes outside the class.[/quote]

The "5 minutes" commenter was talking about  through Algebra 2, and said precalculus would be harder. 
"5 minutes" is absolutely reasonable for that, since the school spends 3 years, including 45 minutes on class every day, on 1 to 1.5 years worth of simple, repetitive, unchallenging material.

That's part of why precalc and calculus seem especially hard -- the early classes aren't making demands that will prepare the kids for later classes, because the classes are almost entirely the same as the non-honors classes for kids who will never take calculus and might never take precalculus.[/quote]

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