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To: i-node who wrote (438600)12/5/2008 5:58:12 PM
From: Don Hurst  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573984
 
Do you know what "streaming" is? Europeans generally stream kids in school at a very young age...i.e., you are going to continue on to higher education or you are not. There are large numbers of those that do not go on to higher education and never go near calculus.

In the UK, there are a lot of "school leavers", an interesting term.

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To: i-node who wrote (438600)12/5/2008 6:01:07 PM
From: Joe NYC  Respond to of 1573984
 
David,

They had also had some linear algebra at a very early age.

i think we didn't cover much of linear algebra in my high school in Slovakia. But then I didn't go to an elite high school, and I spent most of my high school years intoxicated...

Joe



To: i-node who wrote (438600)12/5/2008 11:13:57 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573984
 
"was from Germany and they had had more calculus in their equivalent of high school than the 9 or so hours I had in college. "

No, that isn't our equivalent of high school. He was at a Gymnasium. Which is more like a prep school. Their equivalent of our high schools is their Realschule. And, even then, they have to go through an apprenticeship. We don't have an equivalent of their Hauptschule.


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