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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea how they do it in the DMV area, but when I was in high school and then taught high school, there were two years of calculus. The first year covered what was on the AB exam, the second year covered the difference between AB/BC, which back then was really just series, which took a few weeks, and then the rest of the year was Calc III.

It's a nice way to waive 2 semesters of calculus and breeze through Calc III in college. [/quote]

No you didn’t, you’re the poster that keeps lying in this thread.

No way a high school would condense college Calculus I, II, and III in two years. All while teaching multivariable and calling it calculus BC! The course needs to pass a college board audit, zero chance this happened.

Last, let’s be real here, you don’t have the chops for Calculus III when you primarily math education source is Wikipedia. [/quote]

Yikes, I definitely struck a nerve here. The above was my only post. The school is called Towson High School in Baltimore County. That's how they did it in the 90s when I went there and how they did it when I taught there in the early 00s.[/quote]

You are weirdly invested in lying about this to the point of pretending you taught Calculus. Well, that what anonymity on Internet forums leads to.

If indeed you taught the class, you’d know that for AP Calculus BC, you need to submit a syllabus and a course plan to College Board for approval, and it has to follow their guidelines, ie all AB content, parametric, series.

The chances of them approving a BC Calculus class that skips the AB content, goes over sequences and series in a few weeks, and then teaches multivariable for the rest of the year are zero.[/quote]

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