<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:23 AM Nicola Gigante <<a href="mailto:nicola.gigante@gmail.com">nicola.gigante@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That’s also why I don’t agree with the math curriculum in high-school<br>
(only elementary algebra, trigonometry and basic calculus, at least here in Italy).<br>
If a student doesn’t go to college or studies something non-scientific<br>
(or even some low-math science), he’ll never see an abstract<br>
mathematical concept (see e.g. groups) in all his lives, thus living<br>
forever by completely ignoring what math is all about.<br>
(and this is really connected with the record-low public trust in science<br>
that we are suffering).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Have you seen this?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf">https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>It pretty much hits the nail on the head for most high school math curricula. </div></div></div>