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Originally Posted by kerry edwards
That's an interesting point. There are tens of thousands of students in the US struggling to pass College Algebra to meet a basic Math requirement. Most of them will never use those concepts again. But the will retain a basic resentment against Math and very likely pass it along to their children.
Is this a waste of valuable human resources?
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Exactly! For my degree I need to take four math courses. Math 095, Math 100, Math 120, and math 139. It took me two tries to pass 095, and another two to pass 100. Now I am going into 120 which is pretty much Algebra two, and 139 is calculus for liberal arts majors, or business majors like me.
But in the mean time I hate math with a pasion, and will complain about it to anyone who will listen. It burns me that I have to expend to so much time, effort, and money banging my head into a wall to learn a subject that is useless to me. I feel my time and money could be much better used taking business courses, and english courses.