> Advanced math that isn’t necessarily useful in your college career is absolutely essential to teach high quality thinking.
You've put into words something I wish I could tell everybody. The impact of achieving a level of rigorous logical thinking through math classes goes far beyond "Will I use it in my job," it makes a fundamental difference to the way you see the world and think through every decision in life.
What's so unfair is that, in my experience, whether a given student in average circumstances successfully attains this in either high school or college is, essentially, a crap shoot depending on the combination of teacher, student motivation and support, and any number of other environmental factors.
You've put into words something I wish I could tell everybody. The impact of achieving a level of rigorous logical thinking through math classes goes far beyond "Will I use it in my job," it makes a fundamental difference to the way you see the world and think through every decision in life.
What's so unfair is that, in my experience, whether a given student in average circumstances successfully attains this in either high school or college is, essentially, a crap shoot depending on the combination of teacher, student motivation and support, and any number of other environmental factors.