<p>At my school they have Algebra 2 core and Algebra 2 Honors, and Pre-Calculus core and Honors. With every other subject (Like History and English and Sciences are just slightly more in depth and faster paced)</p>
<p>But with the Math’s (Geometry and Algebra 1 have no honors in High School, and we have AP Calculus and AP stats which are AP classes but no core versions of them) the Honor’s versions of them are way harder than the core version. I’m in Pre-Calc Honors, and our last test had a problem like there is a animal cage shaped like a rectangle with a perimeter of 14, it has been given a roof the shape of half a hexagon, find the dimensions of the rectangle* that would maximize the area of the entire thing. Prove it using Algebra.</p>
<p>Then I saw my friends test that they got back for core and it would be like</p>
<p>Find the Maximum Revenue for the function if R represents Revenue and X represents number of units sold.
R(x)=2x^2-4x+3</p>
<p>You aren’t even allowed to take AP Calc unless you have taken Pre-Calc Honors, they don’t let people who have taken Core Pre-Calc take it. Plus the Finals for the Honors are all Free Response while Core is multiple choice.</p>
<p>Is it like this at anybody else High School?</p>
<p>yes similar. i think there is no geometry/algebra 1 honors because anyone taking those classes at the high school would not be gifted at math. we do have accelerated geometry though which is harder than normal geometry & sort of like honors but it’s not.</p>
<p>anyway both of those questions are really stupid 
for the core one you just find the vertex which is like algebra. for your honors version i don’t even understand that problem. an animal cage that is 2-d? and like how is that even precalculus, isn’t that like a guess / check? you would pick the two numbers closest to each other.</p>
<p>also what kind of school makes you write in MATH?? :(</p>
<p>That would be my school, in my class not only do you have to write a sentence about your answer, he actually marks you for incorrect grammar and or spelling. But apparently what he does works because he also teaches AP Calc and most years literally everybody passes the AP Test and 90% pass with a 5.</p>
<p>I took regular Algebra I and Geometry, and then Honors Algebra II. My Algebra I class had a bunch of seniors who somehow managed to make it to senior year without ever passing the class, and we didn’t do proofs in geometry. </p>
<p>Algebra II Honors was weird. I think he could have made the class really hard if he wanted to, but he didn’t want to have people complain too much. He gave us hard problems for homework, but didn’t penalize us for getting them wrong. Then the test questions were easy, and we were allowed to have partners. We had written assignments like, “Write an essay on whether math is created or discovered.”</p>
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<p>The floor is rectangular and the roof is half of a hexagon, which I guess means the sides would be lopsided quadrilaterals of some kind.</p>
<p>Last year we got insanely hard tests in Algebra 2 honors and not enough time to finish, Algebra 2 core got really easy tests and all the time they wanted to finish, plus we did stuff with the graphing calculator. But For whatever reason it weighted my GPA because I had 5 A’s and a C in Algebra 2 H and my GPA was 3.83. Pre Calc H is weighted at my school to but I don’t know if it counts for colleges.</p>
<p>Oh for that problem I misworded, the perimeter after the roof is added is 14 and the roof was divided into 3 equilateral triangles and then you had to make a perimeter and area function and then figure out how you could maximize the area by maximizing the lengths of the dimensions of the rectangle part of it or something like that, I think like 1 person got it right.</p>