Can I take Statistics and Calculus in High School?

mathyone
Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:27:12 +0000

Look at your high school’s course listing and map out a 4 year plan. Talk to your GC if anything is not clear. Your middle school allows 8th graders to take geometry and algebra2 in one year? That’s quite unusual. Is this part of a 2 year integrated math sequence or do you finish both classes?

You should be aware that AP statistics is a non-calculus based statistics class and is considered rather lightweight. My daughter enjoyed it though, but she took it as an elective along with calc.

Many hs students do take math classes at a cc and you will hear it glibly said that you should just do that on this site. However that doesn’t work for many students. Our cc is half an hour’s drive away and not accessible by public transportation from our residential area or from our hs. The high school doesn’t pay any expenses for the cc courses, they don’t give credit for them, and the scheduling is not necessarily coordinated. For a hs student who doesn’t have a driver’s license yet or doesn’t have use of a car at class times or cannot afford or schedule these things, or simply doesn’t have the extra 3-4 hours per week to spend driving across town, it’s not necessarily a real option. It is very uncommon for students at our school to take cc courses. Online is more popular as far as I know.