As a product of the California K-12 system, I seem to recall being required to pass basic and intermediate algebra in high school. I then signed up for the Arm

As a product of the California K-12 system, I seem to recall being required to pass basic and intermediate algebra in high school. I then signed up for the Army and spent 4 years not doing much math. When I got out and went to sign up for community college, I actually had to take the placement test twice to get a high enough score to skip retaking the exact kind of algebra course talked about in this article.