<p>For the NYers out there: Remember Math A and Math B? What a horror! Our district finally wised up and switched back to Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Pre-Calc, and then AP Calc. Many of the kids take Algebra in 8th grade giving them plenty of time to make their way through Pre-Calc. and/or AP Calc.</p>
<p>Our district doesn’t have a specific trig class. Triangles, etc. covered in geometry; unit circle issues covered in pre-calc. So our usual college prep sequence goes geometry, algebra 2, pre-calc, calculus AB or IB HL.</p>
<p>Our district changed it up this year. My oldest who is very strong in math took starting in 7th grade: Alg 1, Geometry, Honors Algebra2/Trig, Honors PreCalc, Calc BC, AP Stats. He is currently taking Calc 3 as a freshman and it’s his favorite class.</p>
<p>My youngest on the other hand really struggles in math. He’s in 10th grade and his math sequence is (starting in 9th grade) Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry , Pre Calc. He’s going every Monday after school to Math Intervention (at his school) and hopefully that will get him through.</p>
<p>I took Pre algebra in 7th grade (we weren’t allowed to take alg 1 in 7th), alg 1 in 8th, alg 2 in 9th, geometry in 10th, trig/precalc in 11th, and calc in 12th. Other people did it differently 9th grade for us was part of junior high and they didnt offer geometry there. So if you took alg 1 in 9th instead of 8th, they took geo in 10th and alg 2 in 11th.</p>
<p>I’ve seen both Alg/Geo/Alg and Alg/Alg/Geo recently. Then usually precalc is a year followed by a year for calc (AB or BC). There are definitely kids who do better in Geo than anything else and I think breaking up the sequence makes sense. If it is a honors level geo, then they get to start learning about proofs which is good.
Our school is very flexible. The default is geo in 9th, but , really, it’s whatever math you are ready for. (Geo is the lowest.)</p>
<p>Our school has it a very frustrating program…Honors kids take Alg 1 in 8th, Alg 2 WITH Trig in 9th grade, Geo in 10th, Pre - Calc in 11th or 10th (double up) , ap calc in 12th…
For the rest of us 9th Alg, 10th either Alg 2 with Trig (by recommendation) or Geo, Alg 2 with trig for those that have a chance at AP calc… and Alg with Trig in 11th and pre calc in 12th…
But since people had trouble with Alg 2 with Trig last year they split the class into a 2 year course for those students who want to take that instead of Geo…which is stupid you really expect kids to pass the Alg 2 with Trig if they split it up? I’m in tenth grade now I was new in the school last year so I couldn’t take Alg 1 in 8th, Im taking Alg 2 with trig, but they really expect some kids that barely passed Alg 1 to pass the Alg 2 with trig let alone AP Calc? NY for ya…</p>
<p>This is the sequence at our high school for a typical student:
9th - Alg. I
10th - Geometry
11th - Alg. II
12th - Pre Cal</p>
<p>This is the sequence for accelerated students:
8th - Alg. I
9th - Geometry
10th - Alg. II
11th- Pre Cal
12th AP Calculus </p>
<p>**most of these math classes have regular track and Honors Track.</p>
<p>Here is what my 2 daughters did but this was atypical and unusual at our school:</p>
<p>7th grade - independent study Alg. I (under supervision given the HS assignments and tests but no class…got HS credit)
8th grade - independent study Geometry (under supervision given the HS assignments and tests but no class…got HS credit)
9th grade - Alg. II
10th grade - Pre Cal
11th grade - AP Calculus (but D2 had to do it by independent study, given the assignments and tests and class notes but no class as the one class offered which is for seniors, conflicted with the 11th grade Honors humanities classes she needed)</p>
<p>AP Calculus is as high as our math curriculum goes.
D1 was done the math curriculum by the end of junior year and so took AP Calculus BC long distance through Johns Hopkins CTY for credit in 12th grade.
D2 was done the math curriculum by the end of junior year and graduated a year early.</p>
<p>Having observed students’ coursework from around the country, it is not atypical to start Algebra in 7th grade and reach Calculus by 11th grade from what I can tell, but at our MS/HS, it was like advocating for something really really unusual. But we paved the way and some kids who came after mine who needed this acceleration have been able to do it.</p>
<p>My high school had everyone take geometry as sophomores (unless you went to a middle school that had accelerated you and you took geo in 8th or 9th grade instead). Everyone took Algebra 1 or 2 as a freshman, geometry in 10th grade, and algebra 2 or trig/pre calc as a junior.</p>
<p>Some schools do Alg I, Alg II, then Geometry…and some do it the other way.</p>
<p>Reminds me of how some schools do AP US history before AP Euro and some do the reverse.</p>