The Battle Over What Students Should Be Taught in Their Math Classes Rages On

Following up on what I wrote a couple of weeks ago, there's still a lot of debate among the math educators I know about Professor Andrew Hacker's new book The Math Myth.Hacker doesn't think we should burden kids with algebra and higher-level math classes in high school because most won't use it later in life. He'd prefer teachers stick to the basics, the things you need to know to do your taxes and plan a budget and... basically all the things computers can already do. Only students who need to specialize in math for their careers, he says, ought to take classes like trigonometry and calculus.