Looking back on it, I think it was neither; it was just superfluous. Take calculus for example: why would a teacher assign 60 or so integrals to calculate whe

Looking back on it, I think it was neither; it was just superfluous. Take calculus for example: why would a teacher assign 60 or so integrals to calculate when 20 would have been enough? Maybe it prepared me better for college -- I can't say.