How is Taking Calc II in High School Perceived?

cptofthehouse
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:42:12 +0000

My son took AP Calc BC his senior year in high school. Even though he got a 5 on the AP exam, his college gave him a screening test before putting him in Linear Algebra as his first math course at college. He had no problem with the material. At his high school, about a dozen kids do this, but some will go into Calc 3 rather than Lin Alg. My other son who took AP Calc AB in high school, could have gone into Calc3 but chose to take some Discrete Mathematics course.

So, now it is not unusual for a student to have 2 terms of calc done by high school