Are math skills natural, or rather acquired?

Godfather
Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:44:34 +0000

I think calling upper level high school math courses a joke is idiocy.

I’m a junior at the moment, taking Calculus. To me, Algebra 1 and below is like counting from 1 to 10, it’s more than a joke. I’m sure it’s a bit harder than that for even the smartest of middle school kids.

If you’re a college math major and you get way past Calculus, I bet it’s a joke.

To call something a joke is subjective based on how much experience you’ve had in it. So it is lame to generalize high school mathematics as “a joke,” for it is only a joke to college math majors.