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To: Joe NYC who wrote (438538)	12/5/2008 2:48:28 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573957

Joe, > The math teacher I was talking to teaches in New Jersey. Well there's your problem right there ... ;-) Tenchusatsu

To: Joe NYC who wrote (438538)	12/5/2008 4:16:18 PM
From: brushwud	1 Recommendation Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1573957

In Europe, [calculus] is a requirement for graduation in most high schools. That's hard for me to believe. You mean if you ask a bus driver why the bus jerks when it stops, she'll remind you about the third derivative of displacement with respect to time? Or if you ask a store clerk how to integrate by parts, he'll tear off a scrap of paper and scratch on it something about u dv while thinking your accent is quite flawless for a stupid American who never learned this?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (438538)	12/5/2008 5:20:48 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573957

Every high school I have taught at or attended teaches calculus. If a student hasn't completed calculus by college, he or she chose not to. No, that's not correct. Calculus is not offered in high schools as a general course, it is an advanced placement course, completed by very small percentage of students. Oh now you make the distinction between a general course and advanced placement. Why don't you just admit you were exaggerating to make your point. Maybe not in In Europe, it is a requirement for graduation in most high schools. Colleges offer a whole bunch of remedial courses for students not ready to start Calculus. So you have students admitted to colleges, who are not yet ready to study what in the rest of the world is high school math. So? I didn't take calculus in high school nor college. It was not required. Are you suggesting someone majoring in English Lit. should take calculus? If so why?