Which Looks Better--Calc, Stats, or Computer Science?

FindAPlace
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:39:39 +0000

In MS, our school district allows students to “test up” at the beginning of a school year, to advance in mathematics. My S had a built in advantage in that my H is a math professor. He taught S Algebra over one summer and S passed the class and thus went directly to geometry. (Others kids interested in this took summer classes at various places.)

Algebra II is only offered at the HS (which is thankfully next door, although on a block schedule and the HS is not), so in 9th grade, S and three others went to the HS for that class. They discovered quickly they weren’t in the honors class and, on their own, went to the MS principal and said they needed to be in the honors class, which she promptly helped them to do. (She’s now an Asst. Supt. of Insruction.)

Then on to HonorsTrig/Math Analysis as a freshman, AP Calc BC as a sophomore, and now an on line class (with H’s help) in Linear Algebra as a junior.