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

friendlymom
Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:53:21 +0000

Friendlydaughter took geometry as a freshman and then Algebra 2 (sophomore), Precalculus (junior) and Calculus AB (senior). I personally think Statistics would be more useful to her than Calculus, but that seems to be the route of the very non-mathy students and I think Calculus looks a lot better college-wise. She certainly has time to take stats in college so I’m not especially worried about her not having it in high school. I just think it would be a better use of her time than Calculus, frankly. Obviously I expect her to go into a social science or humanities major, not STEM.

One point about math for many BS students is that they often repeat 9th or 10th grade coming into BS, so they’re farther along in math than many HS students. For those that aren’t going into STEM, I think taking a more practical math-based class like stats or even econ is a good option if they’re done a year of calculus as juniors.