<p>Does his HS offer a course JUST in statistics and does that count as “math?” That might be a work around. Personally, I was NOT a fan of trig, but some folks loved it. Statistics is pretty interesting to many, especially since we’re often shown figures and percentages and it’s useful to understand them.</p>
<p>I’d ask the HS & college counselors about this and whether statistics would meet the “math” criteria. A warning is that if he doesn’t take enough math in HS, he may be behind and have to take remedial math in college. Our D had to take through pre-calculus in HS & community college or she’d have had to take it in college as well.</p>
<p>D doesn’t expect to need her math too much as a cinema major, but you never know. She also was thinking about business which I believe requires calculus at her U. Agree with others that it’s sad that math is not taught to relate to the physical world and made more abstract that most students enjoy. Am glad our S found it mostly fun and easy, but sad D struggled with it.</p>