Question for current BS parents/students regarding math track...

2prepMom
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:15:38 +0000

Radical acceleration (2 grade levels or more) in math is becoming more commonplace.

We purposefully slowed down our D so she could avoid university math classes once we decided to have her stay in high school. (she had completed honors pre-calc at the high school while in 8th grade, honors geometry at the high school in 7th, and tested out of algebra 1 after CTY/Thinkwell in 6th grade).

Exeter transitions these types of students into a combined albegra/geometry/trig/functions problem solving class as new freshman, before beginning calculus, to get the problem solving going strong and get an accurate feel for their level and potential. Calculus through BC is then a 2 year sequence.

More than half her current multivariable calculus class are 10th graders, who came in with sufficient calculus to test out of one year of the BC calculus track as new 9th graders. These students have the opportunity to complete 3 additional years of math after BC calc, through graduate level proofs, available to them in HS. Many are IMO level mathematicians.

Tough math class according to D!