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<p>I learned the hard way: Other than remedial math, you don’t what to take a full-year math course over the summer. You may learn to work the problems, but you don’t internalize the concepts.</p>
<p>Sometimes…but in the case of the current 10th graders, they are totally doing it as a GPA boost.</p>
<p>OperaDad, all the kids who took pre-calc in the summer did fine in Calc BC. YMMV, but it works at our school.</p>
<p>Statistics is one of the easier math classes, including college. D. never took AP statistics because she wanted to have more challenging classes in HS and have an easy “A” in college. She has accomplished that. Even Honors Stat. in college was easy. D does not care much about math, but it is very easy for her.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think the kids going right from Algebra II to AP Stats will do fine in AP Stats. I just don’t know what happens senior year when they take AP Calc.</p>
<p>My DS took AP Stats and Trig his Junior year and Calc as a senior. We don’t have a pre calc - we simply call it Trig. I asked him about the Trig class and he saw it as very necessary prior to taking Calc. </p>
<p>I will say that taking two Math classes at once was a major undertaking and not one I would suggest for anyone other than a Math whiz.</p>