During one of our class lectures, a student gave a great presentation on how Algebra 2 classes were going to be cut from the standards of graduating high school in Texas. Now many people have different opinions on this like, it will only hurt our students even more with an already poor educational system in Texas. While others think it will boost graduation numbers among high school students. My take on this is with the first opinion, that it will only hurt our students even more with an already horrible education system. But in one opinionated editorial from the Dallas News, lets us know in a clear and well written article why math is important.
In the authors article she states that we need math in order to help with our critical thinking and that more jobs are having their employees deal with statistics and probability. She understands that many think that math is useless and knowing the quadratic equation won't be used in their life at any point or time. Instead she counters that argument with how learning the basics and knowing how to solve complex problems is what kids really need to get them father in life.
Even though she doesn't name Texas solely I feel like this article is a great point in defending math classes and should be known why Algebra 2 is important to keep in our school system. Personally being one who doesn't like math at all, the author does make the valid point as to why it is such a vital subject in schools.
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