Skipping a Few Years in Math

Millancad
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:45:31 +0000

Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought Geometry was the norm for 9th graders. I took it in 8th grade. It doesn’t sound like you’ve skipped anything.
Anyway, geometry, unless you do trig in the class, is pretty much useless. All of the stuff from it that you use for Calc you relearn later, and yes, most people do need to relearn it because it’s such incredibly minor stuff. The main themes of geometry are never seen again. So the fact that you are doing well in geometry is pretty much inconsequential when it comes to doing well in BC. And if you did well in Algebra I, the concepts in there are nothing compared to the concepts in BC.
You have no need to skip to BC. You could take Algebra II soph year, Pre Calc junior year, and the BC. Or just take either Algebra II and then Ab and then BC. There’s absolutely no reason for you to force yourself into something that you are in all likelihood not ready for. The farthest jump someone I know has done was from 9th grade Algebra II to 10th grade AB. He’s doing really well and he could probably handle BC, but he’d do it with difficulty. Don’t make your life harder than it needs to be.