Re: Socialism in SF

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:49:02 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschilling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charlton Wilbur wrote:
"DDL" == David DeLaney <dbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Things may have changed some over the last 30 years or so, but
when I was going to high school, fourth-year math was indeed
calculus. It didn't get into vector calculus, differential
equations, etc., but it was real live calculus with the deltas
and the epsilons and the hey-lady. (The progression year by
year was algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, if I'm
remembering right.)

I am not that old, but in my high school honors math was algebra II
(conic sections and analytic geometry, mainly), geometry (Euclidean,
proofs and postulates and all that), precalc (including lots of
graphing, limits, interpolation) and trigonometry, and then
calculus.
The college prep but not honors track was algebra I, geometry,
algebra
II, and precalculus and trigonometry.

When I was in high school, back in the Dark Ages, the sequence was

Pre-Algebra
Algebra
Geometry
Second-year algebra
Trigonometry
Calculus

and tracking amounted to where you entered. Those who had done
algebra in junior high school got to calculus in their senior year.



Disclaimer: I attended a small school in upstate New York, 23 students in my
graduating class, 1952.

Our sequence was

Elementary Algebra
Plane Geometry
Intermediate Algebra/Trigonometry (1 semester each)
Advanced Algebra/Solid Geometry (1 semester each)

Problem was, In the third year there were only three students for the more
advanced math courses, myself and two seniors, so we three took Trigonometry and
Advanced Algebra, then in my final year I read the texts for Intermediate
Algebra and Solid Geometry and took the Regent's tests (Statewide in New York)
for credit, with no teacher intervention.

Didn't hit calculus until Freshman year at collage.
.

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