I support those questions. Why are we being forced to learn stuff that even math teachers with admit that have no use in 90% of students lives. I thought that was what higher education was for.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

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by Anonymous 11 years ago

Becoming well rounded individuals. The more you learn, the smarter you are. Students in more advanced classes get better standardized test scores. And seriously, if they only taught us basic addition and subtraction in high school, and then higher education took those kids that needed harder stuff and started them on calculus, they would be screwed. My math teacher always had an answer it anyways.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes but again you are saying that it only helps with standardized test scores. Still not useful in actual life. And I am not saying that highschool shouldn't have classes where they teach it, but I am against that it is forced upon students. It should not be required like it is. That is all I am saying.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Standardized test scores get you into college, which decides who you're gonna be in real life. If you don't want to be smart, just drop out. It's not forced on you.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Way to respond like a douche. Sorry, I thought I was having a discussion with someone intelligent and mature. My mistake

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Learning math, especially at more advanced levels, helps to increase problem solving skills, boost analytical and logical thinking, and spikes interest in to the lives of a select few students they they wouldn't otherwise have found at lower levels. Just because you may not need to know certain equations in your daily life doesn't mean that similar thought processes used to solve those equations will never be used. Mathematics are much more prevalent in your personal life than you will ever know.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't think that you should have to take any higher math levels to graduate from high school. You can take logic classes in college if you choose to, and many professions don't require you to know how to solve in depth and complicated math problems. Math is a very important subject, but you shouldn't have to take really high level math courses if you want to be a kindergarden teacher?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think our versions of "Higher Level" is different. No you shouldn't have to take Calculus or maybe not even Trigonometry. But Algebra 1 & 2. Geometry. Yea, those should be required.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The problem with mathematical education is that students are taught to memorize the steps instead of actually understanding the mechanisms. Students don't learn how to think and then if they forget something they have know way of figuring it out. I largly self taught myself math up until grade nine because I was in a one room school. If I forget how to do something on a math or physics test, I can figure out how to do it again simply by thinking about it. It makes sense.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's a much more valuble skill than what you could be taught about math from a teacher.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Everything is based off stupid standardized tests or whatever though. Like there's no point. If you think you'll have a career in which all that extra math will be beneficial, go ahead! Take all those classes. But most jobs wouldn't require that, and the focus shouldn't be on something the general population doesn't use. Much more useful things can be taught. I'm totally with HopeImrite on this one. You can be smart even if you don't understand advanced math courses or whatever; we all have different talents.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The majority of Jobs require high school math, and even things like not getting getting conned and doing taxes become much, much easier with just high school maths.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I completely understand why we learn MOST math up to Algebra 2, but honestly, when are we going to use Calculus doing taxes?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Did you not read some of the previous comments? Look at what Chasing_Echoes said.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was always told that math and other schoolwork is taught not because it we will need it in real life, but because it exercises our brain and the more you exercise your brain, the easier and faster you recover from something like, I don't know, a stroke. Also, learning these things seems like it helps with being smarter overall, and not just in the catergory of the specific thing you are learning.

by Anonymous 11 years ago