22 Nov 09, 16:02
CafFarain: Wait, why are we talking about school on MI?21 Nov 09, 13:56
CafFarain: Starlin: Don't bother to factor anything complicated. Just plug it into the quadratic formula.19 Nov 09, 11:13
Arra: Um, Primary school is grade 1-6, restart again in Secondary school, 1-4, then again in Diploma program 1-2. All these are IB! Might quit IB after S4 though.18 Nov 09, 20:38
Tyme: My district does math classes in a funny order. The honors path, from 6th-11th goes pre-algebra, algebra I, geometry, alg II/trig, pre-calc, calc bc18 Nov 09, 20:36
Tyme: My mother tried to teach me how to factor them in my sixth grader summer. I'm not too bright though, but it made it a lot easier when we learned it in class in seventh grade. xD18 Nov 09, 20:07
starlin: aX^2+bx+c. My personal mathematical hell. I'm hoping she can explain logs next.. anywho, I'm really loaded down with homework now, so i'm working on charrie but it may take a while.18 Nov 09, 16:21
CafFarain: Quadratics? I remember those. Polynomials of degree two?18 Nov 09, 15:31
starlin: functions today, which I've been stuck on since the beginning of last year. So I might not fail the math exams after all 
Wow, I said a lot...18 Nov 09, 15:30
starlin: work to go, and I'm out. Good news is that the Dutch girl in my class (which is pretty international, all the intelligent non-Swede kids are there since it's in English) made me understand quadratic18 Nov 09, 15:29
starlin: since I'm fluent I could have skipped straight into IB1, which is HS year 2 for the non-IB classes, but I'm already youngest in this class so it felt kind of weird to do that. So two years of hard18 Nov 09, 15:29
starlin: is three years. So once you graduate 9th grade, you start over with 1, 2, 3rd grade of high school. IB is only a 2yr program, so first year was pre-IB to get the swedes used to lessons in English,18 Nov 09, 15:28
starlin: Moved from Utah to sweden last year. I am in my 1st year of diploma, which is junior year in American terms. Swedes go 1-9 grade and then hs is voluntary (but almost no one skips it these days) and18 Nov 09, 01:08
Tyme: And if you don't mind me asking starlin, where do you live? I feel like you've mentioned this already, but I have short term memory. 
18 Nov 09, 01:08
Tyme: *isn't18 Nov 09, 01:06
Tyme: Diploma is the high school program, isnt't it? How do they organize schools over there anyway?17 Nov 09, 17:30
starlin: Right now, I'm wallowing in the miseries of CAS and EE. And TOK essay.17 Nov 09, 17:29
starlin: I miss AP... took a class when I lived in the States, they don't have it here so I'm stuck with either IB or the local science program.17 Nov 09, 07:06
CafFarain: It's one of my favorite passtimes.17 Nov 09, 07:06
CafFarain: Yay for drowning in AP classes!17 Nov 09, 05:51
Arra: Eee, just the standard stuff! We don't get to pick classes over here until we get to Diploma...so yeah. *flails from all the projects*