Math mavens, what's your recommendation?

homerdog
Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:24:43 +0000

maybe I wasn’t clear. I don’t think there will be a gap if your son doesn’t have Calc as a senior. Even as a math major, I don’t think S19 is going back to Calc. His progression has been MV senior year, linear algebra this semester and now a class called Math Reasoning this semester. He didn’t have “a year away from Calc”. I think he could be done with Calc unless he chooses more Calc as electives within the major. He doesn’t need any more Calc than the MV he took in high school to be a math major.

@momofsenior1 one can’t really take Stats “first” in high school and then progress through Calc. At our school, stats is taken instead of Calc after precalc for students who don’t want to take calculus. AP stats is taken as a second math class on top of the Calc sequence for most kids…except the ones who finish MV by junior year and then they usually take It senior year. The progression for most kids at the high school is geometry, algebra 2 trig, precalc, AP Calc (either AB or BC). All of that builds on each other. You wouldn’t interrupt that progression and take stats. For the super math kids, they’ve started this progression earlier in middle school and end up farther along in MV junior or senior year

OP just have your son take AP Stats. There’s no downside.