My sophomore is schedule to take Calculus at his high school next year. But, for the first half of the year, he is attending a semester program art school which does not offer it. Over the summer, he wants to take a first-term class that his school will respect and, preferably, one that would look reasonably good on his transcript while preparing him for the AP test (AB would be fine . . . he can do BC prep later).
Does anyone have a positive experience with an online class?
There is one experience my he would like to avoid: Two years ago, my older son took Calc III from Univ of Illinois’s NetMath program. He felt they assign a bazillion repetitive homework problems which you had to do to go forward even if you got the idea long before. He felt it wasted a lot of his time.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. Last year my son took AP Calculus AB from them and it went very well (they have many other courses to choose from). They assigned him a teacher and she was very responsive. He went on to get the 5 on the exam and an A in the course, and he was able to add it to his high school transcript so it counted in his GPA. You can choose to do the course in as little as 3 (intensive) months, but of course there are additional choices as to timeframe. Fairly expensive though! http://cty.jhu.edu/ctyonline/