Man, I've missed teaching calculus. I really like precalc, but the ideas in calculus feel much more like home to. It just isn't math without epsilons and deltas.
@XanderHenderson I see! Yes, dual enrollment is becoming quite prominent, particularly in school systems where they don't have available many AP classes.
@amWhy And, frankly, I think that AP classes are kind of a joke. I would rather have students take a legitimate calculus class taught by someone with a background in analysis over a high school teacher who barely squeaked through calc III.
@XanderHenderson I agree. When I was in highschool, AP classes didn't exist. I took precal as a 10th grader, then instead of highschool calc, I took two semesters (honors Calc I and II) in my junior year, at a local community college.
I was also able to study logic in my junior and senior year, at the local CC.
@amWhy Ditto my high school. I took a semester of precalc my sophomore year, then left the country. When I came back, I took no math, but could have taken calculus at University of Northern Iowa.
Ditto, for me, @Xander: my school system paid for my classes at the CC, and in my senior year, when I enrolled in Linear Algebra and DiffEQ, my school paid for my linear algebra class at the CC, and for my DiffEQ at Carroll University in Waukesha (since it wasn't taught at the CC.)
What's unfortunate is that only some school systems can foot such costs, unlike, e.g., the Milwaukee Public Schools. And then you go to private schools out east, where all instructors have masters, even some with PhD's. I really struggle with educational inequity!!
@XanderHenderson POSER: And if FROSS isn't a word, can I coin it and define it?? The state in which, while exposed, prior to freezing and developing frost...
...one FROSS occurs! Or else FROSSY is a GLOSSY FROST on a cake, e.g.: FROSSY
