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In reply to the discussion: might be close to getting a new gas stove finally, would love some opinions [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,851 posts)math beyond algebra. Or a statistics class aimed at someone in the social sciences. I've actually taken both. And the information contained in them is amazing.
There's no reason why some basic statistics couldn't be incorporated into high school math classes.
I will say, speaking of math classes, that calculus is the reward you get for taking all those algebra classes. It has a reputation for being too hard for normal people, which is a shame. When I finally got around to taking calc I just loved it. And it wasn't even required for me. I was just having so much fun in math classes at this point I decided to take it. I was an elderly 47 at the time, and I kept on stop the math teachers I knew at the junior college I was attending and telling them how much I was loving the calculus. To a person they said that a lot of math is developmental, and most 16 or 17 year olds really on ready for it, no matter how smart they otherwise are, unless they are real math whizzes. They said those students should wait a year or two and then they'd have little trouble with it.
The math program I had in high school, called UICSM (University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics) which no one seems to have heard of, and which was wonderful, moved us along so that we were doing calculus in the third year. That was where I got overwhelmed and couldn't understand very well and I got a D in that part of the course. Some thirty years later what a different experience.