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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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That's nothing to brag about.[/quote]

Who's bragging?

Merely stating a fact. Most majors don't require calculus. Most careers certainly don't require it. And as we all know, nobody uses calculus in everyday life.

But if you want to freak out because little Suzy wasn't invited to participate in compact math and might not be able to take calculus in high school, go for it. [/quote]
Most careers don't require me to read or understand poetry, Shakespeare, etc... but I had to do plenty of that in HS.

The reason we all learn things like this in school is to broaden our minds, and yes, that does include calculus.  Math past Algebra is all about making you think more critically, using different parts of your brain.

Or, we could go back to the olden days where most teens quit  HS by 15 or so because everything they learned after 10th grade was pretty much useless in everyday life.[/quote]

Are you really trying to equate language arts with calculus?

Apples and oranges.

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How so?  Why does one need to read Walt Whitman or Tennessee Williams or poetry, for that matter, but not have to do Calculus?[/quote]

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