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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a high school math teacher and believe that a minimum of [b]3 years of math are required[/b] at most if not all public schools. I'm in VA.  Math past Algebra II is an elective.  Most want to take higher levels of math for a career or to get into a certain college but it's not required. It's true, the majority of people will not use calculus in their daily lives.

Personal finance is a required course in high school.  I don't teach it and am not familiar with the exact curriculum.  [/quote]

Hardly an elective is it then[/quote]

It is very much an elective. DS, and most of his peers, started the sequence with Algebra I in 7th.  DS starts HS next year at Algebra II with 2 HS math credits. All math after his freshman year will be "elective."  The really smart kids started the HS math sequence in 6th, and have their math requirement to done before they set foot in a HS.  And if you don't like Calculus (I never saw the point), there is very useful math out there.  Probability and Statistics come immediately to mind. So does discrete math and game theory, which I took in college, and did more to help me ace the LSAT than any other class I took.

And yes-- in Virginia, personal finance is a required class to graduate. [/quote]

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