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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP and I am all for rethinking high school math education for people who are "not math people." For a lot of professionals, a solid understanding of basic statistics is probably a lot more important than what you learn in Algebra 2. Having watched the promotional video about this new initiative (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz7XElC9jx8) it seems like they are overly dismissive of calculus and also don't seem to get the distinction between learning the basics of stats (something everyone should know) and really understanding the math behind stats, which requires linear algebra. Any college stats class from a math or applied math department would also require calculus (which of course underpins many sciences and economics). It is also not clear to me how people will take AP Physics without some knowledge of calculus (or at least being well set up to quickly absorb the basics).[/quote]
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