My only take on high school math is fuck trigonometry — people who get to complex numbers can treat all of trig as a mildly interesting corollary, essentially no one else needs to know it.
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Could we file it under history of Math? Interesting enough how old Greeks discovered it and later cultures applied it to navigation and triangulation. Half of school is already history anyways
Yes, this is it! Learn trigonometry historically — haversine, versine and all that. Put students on a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean and make them navigate back to Athens! This is perfect.
