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		secabeen on Dec 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: High school math doesn't prepare most students for... > Calculus in High School? Increasingly rare to non-existent. That's an exaggeration. As of 2018, 65% of public schools in the US offer Calculus: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_225.72.a...

kwk1 on Dec 11, 2023 [–]

It would be perhaps more enlightening to see the percentage of students that are in a school that offers it rather than the percentage of schools. I don't see that figure in this table, but it does show 4.7% of high school students enrolled in calculus.

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