In looking at the graduation requirements for the Dogwood Diploma, it is clearly outlined that a student must have taken at minimum one Math 10 course (which could be either Workplace Mathematics or Foundations of Math and Precalculus) as well as one Math 11 or Math 12 course. I have not included grade 8 in the below diagram because there is only a single option which then leads directly to Math 9, so it has no bearing on the variety of pathways. This means that there is an extraordinary variety of potential pathways that a student could follow in the BC math curriculum.
One might be inclined to point out that not taking some courses precludes you from take a related course (for example Precalculus must be taken before Calculus) but this is not technically true. While it is strongly recommended that this be the case, students are free to enroll in whatever class they choose provided they have support. I know this to be true because I myself took Calculus 12 and Precalculus 12 concurrently, having only had that option due to some scheduling conflicts which arose from trying to take advanced art classes as well as calculus (they had apparently not planned for such a possibility).
Interesting! Generally Precalc 12 is treated as a co-requisite for Calculus 12 across the province. And although, in theory, any course is supposed to connect to any other in the next grade, in practice that is clearly not done in most cases! There are definitely assumptions about which 'stream' a student has chosen...not easy to change streams, though it is possible.
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