Jump from AP Calculus BC to Linear Algebra

2018RiceParent
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:00:21 +0000

will I have a difficult time grasping the concept of linear algebra if I skipped calc 3
No. You can do fine without Calc 3, at least for that one course.



I would worry a little about having a year off from Calculus based on my experience (especially if you have plans for graduate school which might require Calc 3). I took BC as a Junior in HS, then an easy linear algebra course my Senior year (in HS) - which made the first few college Math courses harder: DiffEq and Multivariable (college is much harder than HS, and perhaps more importantly I forgot a lot of BC with a year between Calculus courses) but did fine in the upper level math after that (higher level Linear Algebra, Calculus based Statistics, Probability, and four or five more).

My son liked Multivariable much more than I - but he didn’t have a gap.