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Is Algebra Necessary?
Beη:
Is Algebra Necessary?
--- Quote from: Article ---By ANDREW HACKER
Published: July 28, 2012
A TYPICAL American school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra. In both high school and college, all too many students are expected to fail. Why do we subject American students to this ordeal? I’ve found myself moving toward the strong view that we shouldn’t.
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As a STEM student, I obviously say YES.
What do you think? :)
Citizen Skeptic:
Holy crap yeah! And trig and some basic calculus too.
Neon Genesis:
I think unless you're planning on majoring in a career that requires you to know the math like if you're going to be a scientist or something, then there's not really much point in being required to learn a ridiculously hard math subject that you'll never use in real life.
andrewclunn:
I can see calc and trig being optional maybe, but algebra? Well maybe then all of high school is not needed.
SQ the ΣΛ/IGMд:
Most of my family don't use it at all.
I use it daily.
Necessary? Don't know but at my school you didn't take algebra or other forms of advanced math unless you were enrolled in college prep classes. Those not planning on college had a much simpler type.
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