Should algebra and geometry be required courses for all college students?

They ought to be taken care of in high school or preferably junior high school.

Yes, because kids today are f'ing idiots and have no concept of formulaic or spatial anything. Half the high school graduates today can't even pass the ASVAB, so I'm assuming half that in college kids can't either. The ASVAB is a joke. If you score under like an 80 without studying... Your ignorant, plain and simple.

Ummmm.. YES

Along with coding

Used to be High School

At least mine was...

u dont need math

That should be mastered by 5th grade.

yeah ..nah.


those subjects are pretty useless in the real world.

college should teach classes on

'how to fuck over your collegues to get ahead' and ' how to suck up to the boss to get a promotion'

Yep took algebra in 9th grade, geometry in 10th, algebra 2 in 11th and statistics (instead of pre-calculus) in 12th.

Learned some basic stuff in middle school, like Pythagorean stuff. Yanno, A squared plus B squared equals C squared.

one would think classes like that would bore a college student after learning it before college.

math yes....but those should have been mastered too build on in college.

if we now need to be teaching this in college....we have a huge problem help..


here is the new math course offered at MIT.....


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I am with you on this, when did they stop?

Algebra should be taught in grade school before fractions. Kids should know how algebra affects their daily life. Geometry should be taught in a useful manner so people know how to use it.

Yes college should have required refresher courses in algebra, geometry and English.

No.
Use of MS Excel should be the only "math" required.

That's all you will ever use math for in the professional world, unless you are an architect etc.
Even then, you will just use software. Not worthless algebra.

You will NEVER use algebra in "daily life"

Wanna bet...I do all the time.

I think football, basketball, and wrestling should be required courses.

Algebra is required in junior high and geometry in the first year of high school. At least that's the way it was when I was a kid.

This^^ Unfortunately, many kids come out of high school not knowing algebra and geometry. Colleges try to pick up the slack for these undereducated kids, but if they are that unprepared to learn the material in high school, they won't be stellar college students either.

Algebra I can see to an extent because some students are slow with regards to brain maturation and the ability to think abstractly. But geometry? Anyone who can't learn geometry is just a fuxxing idiot.

What is wrong with today's parents that they are so lax about their kids' educations? I mean, really??? They don't know that their 15-year-old can't add or subtract or make change for a dollar? As parents, you are the ones responsible for making sure your kids know what they are supposed to know before college. They will be living in your basement at 40, unemployed and with a bad attitude, if you don't follow through on your parental duty.

Don't bother to blame the schools - the final responsibility is yours. If the kids had been working through the book, attending class, doing homework, and getting additional help as needed, they would know their high school math. But parents today think that Johnny can skip, not do his homework, not study for tests, and sleep through any class he does attend and it's the school's fault he is a moron. Oh, but yes...Johnny is college material. LOL!

Algebra, geometry, Trig, chemestry, physics are all high school subjects what are they doing with the students time?

If you earn or pay interest, you are using these things in an algebraic expression Interest = principal times interest rate. If you gamble you at least should know the odds, which are expressed algebraically. If something is 25% off, that is 1/4 off, or sale price = price times discount rate. Fractions are algebraic expressions.

Yeah, as if anyone gives a fuck about that shit.
No one cares what their interest rates are. Just what the monthly bill is.

Odds are not algebraic, they are statistical, dumb fuck.

Also, you really think there are stores left that make you figure out the discount?

No. Its on the tag.

A+ for effort, but no one

Yes... separate the wheat from the chaff.

Only if common core is around. And the reason why is they wouldn't have learned it by 10th grade, which I believe is the correct time table. It's algebra, trig and then geometry. Starting in 8th? But if you have to teach it in college then why bother with HS, unless you are really just after indoctrination.....hmmmm