Algebra II to AP Calculus BC?

computerfreak99
Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:03:00 +0000

Ok, I had two reactions when I read this thread.


Daaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnn. Algrebra II straight to BC Calc?!
bad idea


I’m currently a high school senior and I took AP BC Calculus last year. Unfortunately, out of the 3 BC Calc periods at my school I was put in the one with the new teacher. Our teacher had just started teaching the class the year before after having taught (ironically) only Algebra II for 10+ years prior. To this day I still cannot understand who made that call or why, but regardless, she had NO idea what she was doing.

The funny thing is, she even ADMITTED to us that she had NO idea what she was doing, and this year she was put in charge of teaching all 3 BC Calc classes -.-

Moral of the story: don’t make that big of a jump unless you are some math prodigy, at least by my standards. There are probably people on these forums who would consider a jump from Algebra II to BC Calc nothing out of the ordinary -.-