Senior High School AP courses

ucbalumnus
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:38:36 +0000

tamagotchi:

Too bad instead they chose to put effort into developing AP Precalculus. But I suppose precalculus is probably a bigger market for them than calculus based statistics.

Precalculus is not really “advanced placement” in that precalculus is the normal non-advanced 12th grade math.

But the motivation to have it as AP seems to be:

The College Board test revenue.

High schools wanting to run up the number of AP courses.

Colleges annoyed by frosh unprepared for calculus due to low quality precalculus in high school, and annoyed by having to do their own math placement testing, resulting in many students repeating precalculus in college.