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		lordnacho on Oct 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) Same experience here. I went to international school, so I often ended up with American friends who'd talk about Algebra 1/2/3, pre-calc, trig, geometry, etc. Makes no sense to me. All those things are related. There's a picture that shows you why Pythagoras' Theorem is true. And why the difference of two squares is never prime. You'll have had a whole summer holiday between trig and algebra if they're separate things. Surely they are taught as a kind of whole?

gohrt on Oct 20, 2016 [–]

Did you learn all of K-12 math in one year? Which year?

lordnacho on Oct 20, 2016 | [–]

You certainly can't learn it as separate things. I had classes called "Mathematics" every year, all the way to the end of high school.

Got a bit more separate at university, but not really.

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