I live in the Tucson area now and all public school districts have at least one high school that offers Calculus and with our state wide open enrollment policy then at least in theory a class is available to almost all. (AZ is not known as a high school academic hot spot). Some public charter schools here do not offer Calculus because they cater to less capable and/or less motivated students. 16% taking Calc sounds correct maybe it could be a little higher if available. If it was in the 5% range then probably could be considered non-essential for HS. AP Physics C is probably in that low range so my example from above may not be good. What is the percent of students that participated in HS Football? We spend considerable $ on that. [back in my day ( a few years before you), almost all upstate schools had Regents Algebra 1 in 9th ( I was on the honors track we did Fortran programming along with Algebra 1). For you the placement test was the correct answer not some guidance counselor's gut feel. I took Calc for one semester in HS - no AP classes were offered at that time]

I absolutely agree with that AP is not for everybody! And four year college is not for everyone. The "middle-path" is not a solution at all - "No child left Behind" meant all children got left behind as money is wasted on too many tests. There needs to be at least two, probably three or four main paths through high school years based on student capability, motivation, desires, etc. Technology should help us provide these choices. Of course I would loved to had have Derek Owens (an example) live in person for all my son's math courses but that is not reality. I am just so grateful this year that my son's AP Calc teacher is quite good and I don't to have to supplement that!

"Calculus has never been a high school course" - I believe you are judging from decades old history when we went to high school not current reality. The cost of providing an online asynchronous state-wide Calculus based class/course (AP or otherwise) with quality instruction is peanuts versus all the other crap that school budgets get spent on. That could free up some money to spend on better math instruction at the middle school level for example. Really poor or rural districts could have the material provided on DVD. ================================================================= "non-AP physics has always been an ordinary high school course" I agree with your non-AP physics statement and this program could provide that as well for districts that could not afford it or just can't find a teacher.

It is fairly complicated at the highest level college football: http://www.npr.org/2016/08/31/492057117/why-do-colleges-spend-million-to-compete-in-football-our-commentator-asks " Eastern Michigan University athletic department spent almost $34 million, most of that on football Eighty percent of that money came from the university's general fund - money that could be spent on labs, professors or scholarships " so there is some good discussion on that topic these days.

So what is a college level class? It appears that your student is taking Algebra 2 in 9th grade (same as mine son did two years ago). On that track, your student should be taking a "college level" class such as Calculus 1 or Statistics by 11th grade. Should she stop after Precalculus and wait for college? Time marches on, the standards are higher now then when I went to high school for true college prep. Do high schools have to offer a large breadth of these courses - no ( AP Psych and such). AP is a current HS reality for core subjects and that is not going away anytime soon. DE is quite expensive in many states and if subsidized for high school students then that cost is picked up by the taxpayer as well. High school shouldn't be a joke and I believe that is why most folks spend some time on this forum trading ideas and information. [in my school district, the public school bonding is well supported even though they just spent $1 million at each of the two high schools to give them artificial turf football fields!]

Is this available? http://www.connectionsacademy.com/texas-virtual-school You paid your school taxes.

Saxon Physics has the reputation of being mostly a math course. Maybe get an old copy of Hewitt's Conceptual Physics for a completely opposite approach as a supplement.

yes AP physics C is harder to find now in local schools here. The school where my son's best friend goes had only 3 students sign up this year so it was not offered. This school has plenty of students who are or have taken Calc AB. For low enrollment type classes, this is where I believe the state should provide online replacement classes with Derek Owens type quality instruction. Some states have this already such as Florida (not sure of the quality). This should be available to all public, private, and home-schooled students since their parents pay school taxes.

programming textbook Where do the problem sets come from? Have her match it with someone who got the US edition for programming I doubt the content would be much different but if Prof assigns problem 6-2 #5 it better be the correct one

switch rooms if possible - it will only get worse I'm glad my nephew (first term Frosh) is in the honors dorm.

not live but may be of interest https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/

Almost all the high schools around me use (including DS' charter school) 5.0 for A in AP class 4.5 for A in honors class 4.0 for A in regular classes this is the weighted GPA mostly for class rank most colleges also want the unweighted GPA which uses 4.0 as the highest point

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/08/24/2-in-5-high-schools-dont-offer.html "2 in 5 High Schools Don't Offer Physics, Analysis Finds Physics, as champions of the subject will remind you, is the cornerstone of many professions, including those in engineering, health care, aerospace, and architecture. And for students hoping to pursue those and other science, technology, engineering, and math fields during college, getting a jump on physics during high school is all but a requirement. Yet, across the country, 2 in 5 high schools don't offer physics, according to an Education Week Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights. " Wow - I would definitely outsource if that was our situation.

I second this

Anybody try or use this? https://grockit.com/ap_calculus/info

if you get tired of reading some BBC stuff on WWI http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nb93y

Try https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT you don't have to log in

I recommend as well.

Agree that's why I asked here. It was a comment post but I usually assume some truth (maybe I am naive) since it was not a political topic.

Wait for college to use it (purpose of 529) and even then wait until the last year of college so it does not affect financial aid since it is "outside" money.

Is this true? from 2012 comment on open text books: " One of the problems with this is that most universities will not give transfer credit for courses that use "non-standard" textbooks. If you're at a community college and want your courses to apply for transfer credit, unless the courses you take use one of the canonical textbooks, the chances are the universities won't accept the courses. The University of California system is VERY strict about exactly what must be on the syllabus (including what textbook is used) to allow the course to apply for transfer credit. The big state schools run the show, and until they change their standards, nothing else can change. "

This is an interesting resource to start with: BetterExplained Calculus https://betterexplained.com/calculus/

http://online.rice.edu/mooc/course/ap-physics-1/ Begin Date: September 27, 2016 Free

My DS is studying Calc 1. He is doing finding derivatives by the limits method: f'(x) = lim f(x+deltax) - f(x) deltax->0 ------------------- deltax problem: 7 f(x) = ------- srqt(2x) after pulling out the constant to save for later 1 1 ------ - --- srqt((x+deltax) srqt(x) ---------------------------------- deltax after rationalizing this mess I still have 0/0 indeterminate form ?? (tried several approaches) this is really a rational radical expressions problem (rusty) can someone take a crack at this - show steps (posting a picture or via PM since math style above is very painful) the final answer is easy to figure out the normal derivative way not looking for that thank you

right or wrong - colleges usually prefer a school diploma to a "parent" diploma but of course everything else, coursework, grades, etc is more important