How importance in calculus in high school?

arabrab
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:41:50 +0000

You’ll probably need to take it freshman year in order to pursue an economics degree. Lower division Econ classes probably won’t require calculus (or perhaps only simple derivatives) but I can’t imagine an upper division microecon class without it. Personally I think that calculus makes a lot of the econ math easier than the non-calculus approaches. My econ major required a full year of calculus plus differential equations, so you might be taking it for a while. We also needed a good statistics course, and students interested in behavioral economics or econometrics needed quite a bit more math.