<p>“I believe New York is the only state in the US to have an integrated math system. Personally, I believe it’s better because things are repeated and it sticks better, but I hear NY is changing it’s math system in a few years. :/”</p>
<p>Our school system has integrated math, I’m in Mich. Algebra/Geometry/Statistics I, II, III, (some people have IV)</p>
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<p>It’s not pointless. First of all, it’s easier to jump ahead in a math sequence than any other type of class, since math classes are sequential (thus, it’s an easier way to distinguish yourself in the school system, and it’s already extremely difficult to distinguish yourself within as is). Secondly, math classes are so repetitive and slow such that it’s probably better to skip ahead so that one gets the opportunity to finally do self-paced distance learning courses at the post-calculus level (to finally pursue math at one’s own pace).</p>
<p>Several observations I made from this thread, that an 8th grader could easily benefit from</p>
<p>1: Skipping Pre-Calculus to do Calc BC
2: Doing the Calc BC exam when one takes AB
3: Stanford EPGY after Calc BC (even with IB HL math)</p>
<p>Many of those seem self-evident to me now, but they were not so self-evident several years ago.</p>
<p>Also, fluid intelligence declines with age starting in the late teenage years</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelligence[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelligence</a></p>
<p><a href=“fluid intelligence - Google Search”>fluid intelligence - Google Search;
<p>Sciam Mind also says that incidental memory (which explains how teenagers pick up things faster than adults) peaks out at ages 13-15.</p>
<p>Instead of wasting time when their intelligence at their peak, students could actually do something that fits more with their cognitive capabilities at such young ages. Physicists and mathematicians rarely make any novel discoveries after age 30. School, unfortunately, forces our “fastest learning years” into years of nothing-ness and repetition.</p>
<p>7th - Pre Algebra
8th - Pre Algebra (lol failed it)
9th - Algebra
10th - Geometry
11th - “Liberal Arts Math”
12th - “Liberal Arts Math”</p>
<p>5th: Pre-Algebra H
6th: Algebra I, Part I H
7th: Algebra I, Part II H
8th: Geometry H
9th: Algebra II H
10th: Pre-Cal H, AP Stats
11th: AP Calc AB (my school doesn’t offer BC)</p>
<p>6th: Prealgebra
7th: Algebra I
8th: Algebra II
9th: Geometry
10th: Skipped Advanced Algebra (with Trig) to go to Precalculus and took AP Stats
11th: AP Calculus AB
12th: doing independent study Calculus BC</p>
<p>7th: Prealgebra
8th: Algebra I
9th: Hon. Geometry
10th: Algebra II
11th: Precalculus, AP Stats
12th: AP Calc BC, AP Comp Sci, independent study linear algebra</p>
<p>9th: Algebra II
10th: Pre-calc
11th: Calc AB (forced to take before BC)
12: Calc BC</p>
<p>I feel like such an underachiever compared to the people on CC 
:)</p>
<p>9th grade- AP calc AB
10th grade Ap Calc BC
11th grade- taught differential equations class at MIT
12th grade - taught engineering calculus class at MIT</p>
<p>u guys are ■■■■■■■</p>
<p>7th Algebra
8th Geometry (at high school)
9th Advanced Algebra
10th Pre-Calc
11th - Calc AB
12th - Stats (no BC offered)</p>
<p>everyone here is way too smart. ;)</p>
<p>7th Pre-Algebra
8th Algebra 1A
9th Algebra 1B
10th Geometry
11th Algebra 2
12th Trigonometry/ Math Analysis</p>
<p>8th: Adv Algebra (one year early)
9th: PAP Geometry
10th: PAP Alg. 2
11th: AP PreCal
12th: AP Cal</p>
<p>7th Algebra 1
8th Algebra 2
9th Geometry
10th Precalc
11th AP Calc BC
12th AP stats (ugh)</p>
<p>7th - Algebra I
8th - Geometry
9th - Algebra II
10th - Math Analysis
11th - Calculus I (first semester) & II (second semester) (both at community college)
12th - Statistics (first semester at community college)</p>
<p>Then… I sorta ran out of available courses at the local CC…</p>
<p>9-Trig
Graph Theory, Statistics
10-Calculus BC
Linear Algebra, Number Theory
11-Multivariable Calc
12-probably differential equations and complex variables at local university, and something else as an independent study.</p>
<p>This thread should be titled “Place for Math Freaks to Brag About How Smart They Are.” </p>
<p>Whoever said “taking calculus in 10th grade is not impressive at all” should go suck on it, what an arrogant jerk. I took geometry in 9th grade and am proud of it.</p>
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<p>Dude, I took Geometry in 9th grade (via CTY) and Calculus in 10th grade. 
(5 on BC exam, AB course)</p>
<p>Do you realize that “normal” students take Algebra I in 9th grade?</p>
<p>Also, if everyone was homeschooled, then 10th grade Calculus would be far less impressive than it is now.</p>
<p>If everyone was homeschooled, I think we’d have a lot of people sitting around playing video games all day. Some people working hard, but those wouldn’t be in the majority.</p>
<p>I tried homeschooling for a month. No, it didn’t do any good whatsoever. Maybe it works better with proper adult supervision, i.e. parents who care/teach.</p>
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<p>Then what of homeschooling in conjunction with normal deadlines from an online course? The funny thing is that people procrastinate their EPGY courses. But we still don’t have enough experimental evidence to really tell whether students will really play video games all day or not (also, there’s less incentive to procrastinate when all of one’s schooling is done at home, rather than part of one’s schooling). Maybe it would work better if the parents restricted Internet/computer access though.</p>
<p>Part of the problem though, is that people are so used to being publicly schooled that many of them just don’t feel like doing anything but playing video games once they leave school. But if they were homeschooled from the beginning, things may turn out differently (video games stop being new and people learn to control themselves - as long as it isn’t WoW). People do surprisingly counterintuitive things when they’re free. Such as open source. :p</p>
<p>Generally though, it’s only the best parents who would be capable of providing a decent homeschool curriculum - and the children of these parents are the types most likely to enter Calculus BC at young ages.</p>
<p>I must have to admit though, I’d take TJHSST over homeschooling. :p</p>