[rstrahan]

Kids need Business Math far more than Algebra. If you can’t balance a check book, run tables, set budgets, you will have far more problems than if you can’t handle a Quadratic equation.

[Buttons12]

Kids need Business Math far more than Algebra. If you can’t balance a check book, run tables, set budgets, you will have far more problems than if you can’t handle a Quadratic equation.

And it's one or the other! :)

[Hootowl99]

Uhhh.... Business math is algebra, just an applied niche of algebra.

Algebra is the basis for all math since it starts with basic add/subtract, layers in multiply/divide, fractions then gets fancy with these to teach powers, parentheses, equations and such.

Trigonometry, geometry and calculus all use algebraic functions but carry it into different concepts and utilities.

I can't imagine any education omitting algebra. That is equivalent to omitting learning to read.

[Mikey_1962]

It was sarcasm. Sorry.

I have a dual dual BS in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics degrees.