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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what an eye rolling thread.

my DD is coming to a non Big 3 private from DCPS middle school, and will be in Algebra I in 9th grade.

the only bummer of her math level for her is that she is very into science but the science classes are closely tied to math, so she may not be able to fit all of the science electives she wants to take before graduating.[/quote]

Take geometry summer bt 8th and 9th grade. Have your school know that so you can get good schedule for 9th grade math and science. [/quote]

Why not just take geometry in 9th?[/quote]

your math transcript will be behind 40% of a school like J Reed, SWW, Whitman, Churchill, BCC, etc.  
Those schools cover it in 8th grade or in 9th grade concurrent with the next algebra class.

same in Southlake, TX where we were from, near Dallas. 40% of the grade was poised to be done with AP Calculus Junior yr. [/quote]

I doubt these numbers.

At Churchill, for example, there are ~540 students per grade , and 120 in each of Calculus AB and BC.  And 35 of them fail the AB test, and so probably should have stayed a year behind the classes they took.
(100 take AP Stats).

At *most* 40% take calculus at all before graduation, and that's only reachable if no one takes both AB and BC, which seems  extremely unlikely if AB is taken junior year.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/churchillhs/uploadedfiles/careercenter/class20of20202020final20profile.pdf

Carroll ISD tracks less  top less than 10% on national normed tests into Algebra in 7th, and the rest of the top 30% to Algebra in 8th.

Also, their curriculum guide states that Calc AB is a prereq for BC, suggesting that most students taking Calculus aren't ready for the full strength course.

https://tx02219131.schoolwires.net/cms/lib/TX02219131/Centricity/Domain/39/22-23%20Student%20Data%20Matrix%20for%20Math%20Placement.pdf

And by the way 40% of people who take calculus fail the AP test, and only 20% earn a 5 score.

AP classes are over-enrolled across the board. [/quote]

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