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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High schools really need to stop offering calc and pre-calc altogether.[/quote]

I'm so confused by this. I thought all kids needed to take calc to get into the highest colleges and now people are saying pre-calc shouldn't even be a high school class? [/quote]

I think they’re two different issues. The first is whether pre-calculus or calculus provide any useful knowledge for non-STEM kids.  The second is what colleges require for admission.

Lots of brilliant and talented humanities kids will never ever use pre-calculus or calculus in their life.

Statistics is actually a very useful course for STEM and non-STEM students alike.  Colleges seem to recognize that it is an acceptable substitute for calculus for humanities majors.

I will note that I think taking AP Stats it’s probably a safer substitute for AP Calc than non-AP courses. It’s AP status means that it’s most likely seen as a similar level of difficulty to AP Calc (at least that’s what our college counselor told us).

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