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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the thing to keep in mind, especially for parents remembering their HS days, is the HS math curriculum has been completely rewritten to get college bound kids through Calc during HS.  This is now expected, and it should be, because it's the culmination of the teaching in the earlier classes.  E.g. in MCPS, there are topics that once would have been part of Algebra 1 which are now not introduced until pre-calc.  This is as much renaming as anything, students are hitting the concepts at roughly the same age, but calculus is now a core HS class, just like AP English is a core HS class--for anyone applying to college.[/quote]

I do wonder how much of this is purely renaming things. Between grade inflation and test optional, it’s hard to tell if a student who takes the now fairly standard path from algebra 1 in 8th to Calc AB as a senior will be able to pass the AP exam, or even the ALEKS placement exam every college seems to require to register for Calc I. And if the kid decides to skip the AP exam and take a non-calculus route in college, no one will ever know. [/quote]

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