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DD is in 2nd semester of junior year in our homeschooling. We are looking into dual credit for summer and next year. In math we will be finishing Saxon advanced math by end of summer. So, in fall of her senior year I can 1. do calculus at home (not me best choice as I would have to teach it  ); or take college alg. or trig (of maybe precalc if they let us) in fall then hopefully calculus in spring or summer 2016.
What math (and other subjects have your kids taken in community college?
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Neither of my high schoolers took community college math while they were still in high school. My daughter's friend (16) took statistics this past semester. He's really good at math but found the class to be more difficult than he had expected.
You might want to talk with a community college advisor about this question. Part of the answer will depend on your daughter's scores on either the SAT/ACT or on the placement test at the college (ours uses Accuplacer, which is computer-based). If your daughter doesn't place into college algebra (at a minimum), you might be better off spending part of her senior year making her ready to retest and qualify for that class.
FWIW, my son took U. S. History for dual credit and my daughter is taking Japanese. We tried to play to their strengths for their first college/classroom experiences, and I think that was a good way to go for us. They enjoyed the classes and felt confident they were ready for college work.
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We'll be finishing saxon advance math by the end of the summer. So I guess its calculus at home  or somehthing at the comm. college. Her SAT math was 600 so she maybe could go right into precalc at the community college? and calc her spring semester of senior year of summer before college.
I am hoping to at least have her prepared for college calculus when she goes to 4 year college in a year and half. But I know some colleges she's applying to will actually take the comm. college precalc and calc. transfer credit.
Also will probably take comp. (yes to get it to transfer!) and possibly spanish.
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Our local community college does a placement test. We have friends whose son, also a junior, is in . . . I'm not sure what math there, based on his scores, for dual enrollment.
My son, who's 17, took college trig last semester, and is in college algebra this semester -- which is probably kind of backwards, but it's worked out okay. He had done Saxon algebra, then Teaching Textbooks geometry, and then made an A in trig, so preparation didn't seem to be a problem. He's in algebra now because a) his trig prof is teaching it, and they get along well; and b) because even after Saxon algebra, he felt (on the ACT, especially) that that was his weak area. His math score was good, but for a STEM person it could be better, so he wanted to target that area for another round of testing.
I had planned for him to do calculus next year, but he's applying to college instead, so assuming he gets in, gets money, and goes, he will have to take pot luck there. But his preparation so far has seemed pretty decent. And I'm fairly sure the credits he does have will transfer, so that's a bonus.
But yes to everything Nancy said. I'd definitely have her take a placement test at the community college, just to see where she falls.
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What my kids did was took Saxon Advanced Math at home junior year, then Saxon Calculus at home ( through Seton) senior year, then took the Advanced Placement exam and placed out of the first semester of college calculus.
There might be a CLEP exam for the advanced math where she could get college credit for what she's already done.
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My dd (sophomore in college) did not take any dual enrollment classes, because she chose to go to a Catholic liberal arts school with a core curriculum which accepted very few outside credits.
My sons (currently high school sophomores) will be doing dual enrolled classes starting in junior year. Second semester junior year they will take precalculus with trig. They will take calculus in senior year. Most colleges only give credit for calculus only (not precalc)They will have completed Foersters Algbera II (and intensive SAT Math practice) before their precalculus.
Our community college has you do a computer (automatic grading) Math test and English test (with an essay component) Our community college will accept SAT scores of higher than 500 for writing and critical reading and 520 for Math - in place of the placement test.
I am not yet sure if my boys will do any other classes. They are thinking of programs in Cybersecurity and Computer Forensics, so they may do some computer science. Alternatively they may take a Spanish class there. They have already had 2 years of Latin, but they want to improve their Spanish.
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I had one son take precalculus his senior year and then Calc I at the community college a couple of summers later. It was a stretch for him since he'd had too many semesters off from math, and it's not his strongest area. It was definitely MUCH easier than taking it at the university, though.
My kids have taken several AP tests but no dual enrollment. In hindsight we all wish they'd done dual enrollment for at least the basics.
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