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To: Taro who wrote (438325)12/5/2008 9:11:52 AM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1573983
 
Taro,

We had calculus in High School in Denmark and Sweden in the late 1950s. Differentiation and integration, which we also applied to the problems in physics. All of that in high school and as a prerequisite to enter engineering school at college level.

Exactly, thanks for confirmation.

I wouldn't be surprised if US high schools were teaching the same in 1950s, before they moved to more important problems, such as forced racial integration, or the latest, building self esteem in children who have no reason to have any self esteem based on the abilities they are possess.

Joe



To: Taro who wrote (438325)12/5/2008 9:38:29 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573983
 
America is a nation of salesmen. Salesmen don't need Algebra, let alone Calculus. In high school, the PE coach taught Algebra. His understanding was so poor, he'd call on some of the brighter students to explain many of the concepts.

"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

-- Hunter S. Thompson


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