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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    As a Norwegian, focusing on one kind of math per year sounds absolutely bizarre. We did a bit of everything every year in the 90s at least, and I doubt it’s changed. How do you not forget everything if you learn it one year just to not touch it again for years?

    In college each group of subjects have a separate class, but doing that in high school sounds nuts.