{"id":80602,"date":"2022-05-09T16:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80602"},"modified":"2022-05-09T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:04:55","slug":"reflections-on-it-may-be-time-to-rethink-the-emphasis-on-taking-calculus-in-high-school-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/05\/09\/reflections-on-it-may-be-time-to-rethink-the-emphasis-on-taking-calculus-in-high-school-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;It may be time to rethink the emphasis on taking calculus in high school&#8221; [Anderson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/opinion-it-may-be-time-to-rethink-the-emphasis-on-taking-calculus-in-high-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OPINION: It may be time to rethink the emphasis on taking calculus in high school<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Veronica Anderson<br \/>\n<em>An argument for opening other paths that could be more relevant to students<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Based on data from surveys and interviews, \u201cA New Calculus for College Admissions\u201d reveals how deep-seated preferences for calculus weigh heavily in decisions about who gets admitted to college.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yet does it make sense for calculus to have such an influential role in college admission when so few college majors actually require the course? There are other ways for high school students to gain the quantitative reasoning skills that will prepare them for the rigors of college and the workplace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It\u2019s time to reconsider the dominance of calculus.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I wholeheartedly agree. And along these lines, I think it would be far more beneficial to students to have classes on topics such:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How do I do my taxes?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What legal things do I need to know about (i.e., wills, trusts, civil law-related items, other)?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How can I get and stay healthy?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION: It may be time to rethink the emphasis on taking calculus in high school &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Veronica Anderson An argument for opening other paths that could be more relevant to students Excerpt: Based on data from surveys and interviews, \u201cA New Calculus for College Admissions\u201d reveals how deep-seated preferences for calculus weigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,72,343,347,419,46,163,855,480,66,321,11,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum","category-daniel-s-christian","category-education","category-education-reform","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-mathematics","category-skills","category-society","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-vision-possibilities","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80602"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80609,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80602\/revisions\/80609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}