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One of things that I have found to be a disappointed with the US education system is lack of statistics courses in High School. Absolutely. Teaching HS student
by neilc 15y ago
One of things that I have found to be a disappointed with the US education system is lack of statistics courses in High School.
Absolutely. Teaching HS students trig but not statistics makes zero sense.
That said, the way statistics is taught is absolutely awful (probably even worse than most math education), so I'm not sure it would make much difference.
- jamesbkel 15y agoThat is a valid point. One of things I noticed when I was in HS (~10 years ago) was that since it was such a new phenomenon to teach stats in public HS, the teacher was essentially learning alongside us. This was no fault of his own, but simply that when he was training to teach, the value of teaching everyone basic stats was not appreciated. I can only hope that trend will change.
- gujk 15y agoConsidering how awful college stats classes are, I don't see high school getting any better.