In Oklahoma, the requirement usually is up to “algebra 2” - this is mostly domain and range, finding roots of polynomials, and logarithms.

IMHO, the world would be better if calculus was a required part of the high school curriculum. Like yeah, most people aren’t going to need the product rule in day to day life, but the fundamental ideas about rates of change seem like they’re something that everyone human deserves to be exposed to.

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    My final year of high school (not in the US) had a finance class that had recently been split off from one part of the “current events” class into it’s own thing. We were taught how to budget and handle interest, loans, taxes, savings, ect…

    Also a bunch of BS about how big corpos are great and awesome because the teacher made money on the stock market.

    I do think it should be a standard class everywhere though, it’s ridiculous to not teach that stuff.