How importance in calculus in high school?

rpg1
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:51:09 +0000

I advised my son to take calculus in HS because it is often taught better than in many colleges. In larger colleges, TAs in Mathematics teach the first course in calculus and often have little experience teaching these concepts. The HS calculus teacher is often one of the most experienced HS math teachers. It was for my son’s HS. He ended up taking an introductory business calculus class in college but he said that the HS teacher had indeed helped him more with concepts than the college teacher. Not all colleges throw TAs at freshman calculus students but enough do so, that I believe the advice usually holds.