Different levels of calculus...?

Question

What is AP Calculus?
What is AB Calculus?
What is BC Calculus?
What Calculus do "dual-enrollment" students take in high school?
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Are there any other types that I'm missing?

Answer 1

AP calculus stands for advance placement. Taking this course allows you to get college credit...if you can pass the test. A year of calculus is divided up into two part AB and BC. Typically a student taking a year of AP calculus in high school finishes his year by taking the AB exam; passing this exam with a 3 or higher (possible scores = 1,2,3,4,5) will get you a semesters worth of calculus credit at most colleges--some demand that you at least get a 4. Most of the time students at the high school level do not take the BC exam (Representing the second half of a full year of calculus) unless they take another full year of calculus at the high school level. For example, some students will take their first year of calculus when they are juniors (AB test taken afterwords) and then will take another full year of calculus as Seniors ( taking the BC test when they are done) So, passing the BC test with a 3 or higher will get you college credit at most colleges for the second semester of college calculus. It is possible, I am almost sure, to take both tests your firs year if you feel that you learned the material.
There is one more type of high school calculus class called IB which stands for International Baccalaureate. This is a tougher curriculum ( more theoretical) then the AP but many schools do not offer this. Either way, you can get college credit for taking this as well.

Answer 2

AP calculus is Advanced Placement for which you can take a standardized test at the end of the course for college credit.
AB and BC are the two different levels of AP Calculus representing Calculus I and II respectively.
Dual-enrollment means that a high school student is enrolled at a local university for one or two classes that they are advanced in for credit.

There is also Calculus III which deals with three dimensions, but it's almost never taught at the high school level.

Answer 3

Okay look, the problem is that in Calculus, there is just soooooo much material that it has to be split up in three parts. Therefore Calculus is a three semester course called Calculus 1,2,3 or Calculus A,B,C in schools. The problem is that school years have only 2 semesters.

So in one school year, you can learn/teach only two semesters, unless the teacher wants to cram three semesters in two. I mean you can't really learn Calc B and C without A. Math has a flow to it and you need to be good in previous ideas before you can understand the new ones. How can you understand Calc C if you have never had Calc A.

So Calc AB, is the first two semesters.
Calc BC, is supposed to be the last two but it is really all three crammed in.

AP calculus is just advanced placement because calculus (in the united states at least) is supposed to be a college level course because in high school we are all too dumb to be learning that stuff.

My recommendation in the order of importance:
1.If you can, avoid taking AP at all because those are killer during high school AND they are not worth it. Colleges, universities will give SUCH a hassle about transferring those classes over. Trust me on this. I took like 4AP classes in high school (and passed all of the tests) and they only gave me credit for like one class. This just tells you about the corruption and bureaucracy in the college board. They deliberately make the AP tests harder because they want to discourage students from doing this because they want students to come to college, PAY THE FOR THE CLASSES, and take those classes at a college/university.

Because of this I had to repeat all three semesters of calculus, and two english classes again in college. The only one they gave me credit for was Human Geography. I took the physics one too and got a 4 on the test but I repeated that too.

2.Instead of taking AP, just take the normal or honors level classes (if you really want) and then take some classes simultaneously while you are in high school at your local community college/university. Since you will be under 18 and enrolled in a school, you can get a fee waiver AND there will be no hassle about transferring or anything. Colleges trust each other wayyyyyyyy more than they trust public high schools.

The same class taken at a college will be a LOT easier as well. Trust me. AP classes are impossible while those in actual college are almost a breeze compared to the AP classes.

So what I recommend, take calculus at a college close by. And if you can take physics as well, again, if possible, at a college or just take AP Physics if you want.

Physics and Calculus were (literally) made for each other. You CANNOT understand one without the other. IT really really really helps if you take both of them together. I learned that the hard way. In colleges, it may be a prerequisite/corequisite. In some school too I know, you have to take both together. They won't let you take physics without calculus.

Answer 4

AB and BC calculus are both exams offered by the AP Board. So both of those courses are AP Calculus.

BC goes into more depth and farther into the vast realm of calculus.
I took two calculus courses past BC Calculus. There are other types of math and applied math that you can take once you've got a good footing in calculus. Good luck whatever you decide!

Answer 5

The levels of calculus you're talking about is given in high school

As was said, AP (or Advanced Placement) calculus is the generic name for the course you take in calculus.

Some schools teach enough for the AB and some teach you enough to be ready for the BC exam. In most cases, passing the AB/BC will get you some college credit.

As for how much credit, it depends on which college you go to. Some colleges teach calculus in two years or 4 semesters. Some teach it in 3 semesters. Very few schools (like MIT) teach ALL of calculus in two semesters (single var calc one term, multivariable the 2nd term), but they're the exception to the rule.

Anyways, in most of these cases, passing AB gets you credit for 1 semester, and passing BC will get you credit for 2 semesters, but remember to check with your school.

Answer 6

properly im an engineering student and after Calculus 2, there is multivariate Calculus and then Differential Equations, yet as well Linear Algebra, and better degrees of Calculus that bypass into diverse fields which incorporates information, and economics and math idea

Answer 7

AP Calc is just Advanced Placement Calculus. AB Calc and BC Calc are subsets of AP Calc. BC just covers more material than AB Calc. You are forgetting Business Calc.

Answer 8

When I studied calculus long time ago the subject consisted of"
-continuity of functions and limits
-differential calculus
-integral calculus
-Differential equations
-definite integrals
-applications
I do not know what you are referring to