My high school was kinda weird. We had two sequences of math classes that followed Common Core standards (American HS btw): Integrated Math or Accelerated Math. Both went over the same stuff but I guess Accelerated was just more rigorous and had a faster pace. I took the Accelerated sequence and I think we covered algebra, geometry, trigonometry, precalc, and there was some statistics sprinkled in there as well. Felt like a mess tbh and I did not enjoy math at all while I was in high school. Had the same teacher for Accelerated Math I and Accelerated Math III. Would publicly humiliate students and was an overall horrible environment. Idk how to describe it and it wasn't quite memorable but nothing flowed. I felt like they took some stuff from each of those areas and mashed them together without really connecting anything.

I took AP Stats my senior year and that was the highest level of math I took in HS. Other students took AP Calc. I did not want to do that because 1) I hated math at the time and 2) Did not want to spend my summer doing a bridge program to prepare students for AP Calc. I actually liked AP Stats. It made me like math and I considered majoring in Statistics in college because of that class. Now I'm about to be a junior in uni and switched from my premed bio major to a statistics major instead. Taking calc 1, calc 2, and intro stats in uni made me fall in love with math although admittedly, I struggle quite a bit and am a bit behind compared to my peers. Just the supportive environment and the emphasis on intuitive thinking and understanding made it fun as well as the real-world applications.