When taking calc as a senior was actually considered "smart"

MIThopeful16
Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:02:25 +0000

I’m going to go bring up my previous posts in this thread and reiterate them. Actually I’m going to say this: we fail at creating a uniform standard in this country for math education. Our model is very flawed. So flawed it needs to change. For the record, I took Calc as a senior in HS. I didn’t score high enough on my IB Exam to get credit. In college however, I didn’t have to take either as I did well on my Calc placement to place out of Calc I and Calc II. You’re not behind if you don’t take Calc in HS. If you did, and everyone received a passing and credit-granting score, there would be no purpose to offer the Calculus Sequence in college, starting with single-variable calc.