3 Years of Math vs 4 Years

Massmomm
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:16:25 +0000

@ucbalumnus , by my reckoning, he is one year, not two years ahead in math. Algebra 1 is taught in 8th grade around here, and he took it in 7th. Or is this not the case everywhere? My kids’ track went: pre-alg (7th), alg 1 (8th), geometry (9th), alg 2 (10th), trig/pre-calc (11th) and calc (12th). Within each math course, there were levels (college-prep, honors, AP, etc.), but everyone followed this track.

OP, if you exhaust your school’s math offerings, you will be fine. It doesn’t matter if you do it in three years. Colleges won’t penalize you for starting the math track a year early. Calc BC is only a month’s more material than AB, so a lot of the beginning will be review for you if you take that.