You need trig for physics
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Then teach it to people who want to learn that much physics. Voters need demand/supply and *everyone* needs Bayes.
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What if we cut out Homer instead?
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teaching supply/demand curves in HS is a terrible idea. Decent overview of why: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/101ism.html?m=1 …
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That doesn't say "voters don't need Econ", it says "teach empirics that contradict the fallacies, in the same course".
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you didn't say "voters need Econ" you said "teach supply/demand curves"
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but I may have just missed your context
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+ personal finances, statistics, non fiction writing, presentation skills
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@zooko it's a sin. But, that's a tangential point.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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statistics and probability. people are exposed to many statistical claims every day, very few trig or calculus problems
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things that less than 1% of high school graduates can do: trigonometry.
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trig without complex numbers and simple harmonic oscillator application is the problem.
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why not both? not a zero sum game
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Highschoolers have a finite amount of time to devote to learning; there are tradeoffs.
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4 years is a long time -- surely there's room to move curriculum around
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Measure theory isn’t a highschool subject, so you can’t Banach-Tarski more time. Adding econ gives up something.
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this is why high schools offer electives :) - for me, econ was required and a choice between stat or calc
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what I mean to get at is all above subjects are important, and I agree that more stats over calc would be good
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I haven’t used much trig outside of classes or having fun with math. I have for econ, probability, and statistics.
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Trig is useful for other things, but most people don’t do signal analysis, physics, computational music, etc.
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