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Even those of us in STEM don't use Calculus.  Doctors don't use Calculus.  Chemists and Biologists by far don't need it. It's not the matter of Americans not going into STEM.  It's a matter of no matter what country you from most careers don't have a use for Calculus.  [/quote]
Again, it's not about the use of Calculus in a job field. It's about advanced critical thinking skills.  Just as you read harder text as you get older in school to develop those skills, you take harder math to advance other critical thinking skills.  Can you imagine just doing harder and harder division problems as you get older, like in 11th grade?  Why do we need GE classes in college?  They were useless in my STEM field.  But, I see the value in it, just as there is value in LA majors taking harder math.  It utilizes other critical thinking skills.

American adults suck at math compared to other lesser developed countries, and now we know why.  Apparently, some believe you should stop learning math at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.[/quote]

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