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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Common Core was a nightmare. AP, I hope, is the next one to die. It’s a s*itshow.

More voc. More certification-based prep.

Very, very few people need math past Geometry. Only those really going to college need it.

In fact, it is more important to know WHY calculus exists and how it is used, than it is to actually know the fundamental theorem and the rest of it.


11 posted on 01/17/2018 11:29:25 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs
Very, very few people need math past Geometry. Only those really going to college need it.

Nonsense! That's like saying very few people need dishwashers. Technically true, but at the sacrifice of a profoundly useful tool. For example, the beauty of Algebra is it teaches you to use what you do know to find out what you don't know.

24 posted on 01/17/2018 12:00:44 PM PST by papertyger (Bulverism: it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Geez, I had not only algebra, but advanced algebra, trigonometry, statistics, plain and solid geometry, and calculus by 12th grade. I’ve used all of it from time to time. Lack of education is one of the problems the US faces. Knowing that something exists is no substitute for actually knowing that something.

When I got to college I didn’t need to waste course time with math - and was waved.

When I became a welder I need much of that math to make the right angled cuts, lengths and correct weld depths.

If you don’t know math, or are at least passing familiar, how are you going to help your kids when they need it?

Education is a joke in this country these days and mostly consists of rote learning, passing over reading, writing and math. Then rapidly moving on to climate, social justice issues, and ‘fantasy’ US history - wherein kids learn to be good voters for the Democrat party, and never learn how to learn; never learning the self-discipline of long hours of home work each night.


31 posted on 01/17/2018 12:22:12 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Very, very few people need math past Geometry. Only those really going to college need it.


Higher mathematics helps develop reasoning. Thinking is an important skill. We want more than just automatons graduating from high school.


48 posted on 01/17/2018 4:12:22 PM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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