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I mean it would work fine for the top 10% and the rest probably don’t need calculus anyway

• jfengel 4y ago
  At least, the top 10% of math learners. There's nothing wrong with students who don't want to get into math beyond algebra. (Algebra is a crucial life skill, at least as long as you stick to the actually useful parts rather than veering into abstractions that matter only to those 10%.) It's too bad that we're stuck with a dilemma: either track students early, missing some people and misdirecting others, or don't track them at all, missing potential excellence. I don't think you can avoid that dilemma entirely, but I do think you can take a guess and say "You don't seem to be enjoying the kind of math that leads in the direction of calculus, how about we put more effort into things that might be more fulfilling to you."