[quote=spdrun]I’d say that probably 80-90% of students went on to take at least pre-calc (derivatives) if not Calculus (integration).
Our of curiosity, is your 6 out of (50?) states a real number or is it an attempt at humor? I’d actually be interested in seeing stats as to what is required reading in which state.[/quote]
The majority of high school students ARENT taking calculus or for that matter pre-calc. And again, teaching 1-2 weeks of compound interest and amortization the last year before college is hardly an effective way to instill any sort of money management skills for someone that has none. Especially the way it is taught in school being a theory of exercises, and very rarely even touch reality of “real world money management problems”….
You’re taking this for granted because you were either raised with money management skills or you had significant exposure to it from someone else.
WRTO the 6 states…It was the number out of one of the included articles, though it was dated back to 2005/6… I think there was another article floating around dating back to 2010 that indicated it getting worse, especially with the education cuts. Correction the number is higher. most offer some sort of basic economics, but few offer personal finance as a curriculum.
