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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son will do compacted math next year, but I probably won't send him to the local middle school for math each morning when he's in 5th grade.

Is rather have him do well in math in ms and HS than be pushed too hard and struggle.

I[b] never took calculus--not even in college. It's not necessary[/b].

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Huh.  All of the college students out there who have been told that they can't graduate without passing calculus must have been given erroneous information.  It's going to be quite the endeavor changing all those course catalogs before more students are tricked into taking unnecessary courses.[/quote]

My BA at UMCP didn't require calculus. Went on to law school, and the only math I use is basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 
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There's a difference between "it's not necessary for all majors" and "it's not necessary."[/quote]

It's not necessary in HS.

[b]It's not necessary for most college majors. [/b]

It's not necessary for real life.

And it's certainly not necessary to worry about it in 3rd grade.[/quote]

Very inaccurate statement.

Any physical or biological science, engineering, math major will absolutely require calculus.

At my land-grant university ag & mech school, calculus was required for the liberal arts majors, too.

So maybe for an art major at a liberal arts college your statement is true... but that your "most college majors" blanket statement is way off.

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