What grade were you in when you took high school physics?

Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | Physics

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Or what grade are you in if you’re currently taking high school physics? I was a senior when I took it. When I was in school everyone took it as a senior. Currently I’m tutoring a kid whose taking physics as a sophomore. She says its common at her school to take physics in that grade. Personally, I think that she and a lot of the other kids at her school are taking it too early. I don’t think that she has the necessary math background to get the most out of the subject. She’s only had one year of algebra and she just started geometry. No trigonometry yet. No wonder America is falling behind other countries in science education.

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4 Comments to What grade were you in when you took high school physics?

felasioo
September 7, 2009

I’m currently taking it in gr 11, and I will probably take it in 12. Some physics was also introduced in gr 10 to me.

Paladin
September 7, 2009

Senior for me also.

It does sound like they let her into it without sufficient math; especially if she need a tutor this early in the school year.

Terras
September 10, 2009

I was a junior. Then again, it was a college level physics class.

Actually, I took a physical science class in eighth grade, which was pretty much just physics. And despite your claim about America falling behind other countries, we are still the dominant scientific community on the planet by far.

Yowsie
September 13, 2009

Young people should be encouraged to study science and what i have seen on questions and answers ,well there are more smart young people than you imagine- check out the maths and physics answers - i think you underrate the best and the brightest ,of all the millions of possibly the smartest generation ,of all time .All connected to the internet, and in the next century American .com startups will lead the whole world on to the full relization of the info supa hiway.

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