Do you remember how much math was the absolute minimum you needed to graduate when

[DawnM]

you were in high school?

When I was in high school only two years of math were required. I took Algebra in 9th grade and Geometry in 10th grade.

Now, many of my friends went on to take more, but I did NOT! I hated math. I believe I only took two sciences too. It may have been three.

The thread on making schools better sparked my curiosity.

Dawn

 

[Meriweather]

We had to take 2, but 4 were required for college prep....so I took 4

Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 and Trig

 

[Sorsha]

When I was in high school, I think only two years of each were required.

I took 3 of math - Algebra in 9th, Geometry in 10th (HATED it), and Trigonometry in 11th. Calculus would have been my 12th grade option, but I had no desire to take it.

I took 4 of science - Earth Science in 9th, Biology in 10th, Chemistry in 11th (HATED it), and Advanced Biology in 12th.

I thought I was going to be a biology major in college, but it didn't work out that way.

 

[golfgal]

I am not sure what the grad requirements were, I think 3 years. Most everyone I know took 4 years.

In our high school it is 4 years of math to graduate, 3 years of science, including one chemistry course, 4 years of Language Arts, 4 years of Social Sciences, 1 trimester of Econ, one year of an arts credit (band, choir, drawing, etc) as well as 2 1/2 years of PE and some other stuff.



edit: second thought I bet it was 2 years for graduation but high school was 10-12, not 9-12 like it is here. Everyone I knew took math all years in high school.

 

[DawnM]

Really? I got in to a Tier 1 college with only 2.

My guess is that I am older than you are though.....

Dawn

We had to take 2, but 4 were required for college prep....so I took 4

Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 and Trig

 

[DawnM]

Maybe I should have asked when people graduated. I graduated in 1984. I think requirements changed in the late 80s, early 90s to require more math.

Dawn

 

[Pembo]

Graduated in '86, 2 years of math were required and that's all I took! I didn't need more for college or grad school.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

That's a complicated question.

When I graduated in 1988 I think the requirement must have been 3. That was in FL.

DS is a freshman, and it looks like 3 at the very, very least. The district is pushing "4x4", which is math, English, social studies, and science all 4 years of high school for everybody, no matter what. The graduation requirements do have one plan that allows just 3 math credits, but that is the plan they are using to target kids who would drop out otherwise. Typical students will not be allowed to just do 3 math credits.

DS is in algebra now. Next year he will take geometry. After that there is a class called "math models" that his high school does not offer. I suspect it is a course similar to one I took called "liberal arts math". I haven't asked how he can take that if they don't offer it. The kids can only get one semester of credit in summer school, and that is a year long course. Math models MUST be completed before algebra II, so I will need to figure this out by the end of his sophomore year.

 

[msjprincess]

IIRC it was

1 year of Science
2 years of Math
3 years of Social Studies
4 years of English

I graduated in 1983

 

[golfgal]

Really? I got in to a Tier 1 college with only 2.

My guess is that I am older than you are though.....

Dawn

I am the same age as you and the colleges didn't "require" 4 years of math but where I went if you took 4 years of math it satisfied your math requirement in college (before AP classes were really available). We didnt have to take the CLEP test or anything, just having it on your transcript was enough.

 

[hereyago]

I hated math. I believe I only took two sciences too. It may have been three.

The thread on making schools better sparked my curiosity.

Dawn

This was me in the mid 80's in high school. It was a combination: I had Pre Algebra-I truly don't know how I even passed, terrible at math and I took Earth Science and Biology.


But I also in 11 and 12th grades went to a Magnet school. So, a few classes at regular high school, then to the magnet school.

Math was never my thing.

DD12 is taking what would be Pre Algebra in 7th grade, then next year will be Algebra 1 and it will go towards her high school points. Crazy thing is: DD doesn't like math, but apparently it's sort of her thing, because her math teacher from last year selected for her to go into this math.

 

[Sorsha]

I graduated in 1991.

I just looked up on DD16's high school's website, they list graduation requirements, as well as college admissions recommendations. For our area/schools the requirements as of this year are:

English: 4 years, for both graduation and college
Social Sciences: 2.5 years for graduation, 3 years for college
Math: 2 years for graduation, 3 years for college
Sciences: 2 years for graduation, 3 for college
Foreign languages: no graduation requirement, but 2 years recommended for college
Fine Arts: At least 1 year, for both graduation and college
Health/PE: 1.5 years for both graduation and college, of which .5 is Health, and 1 is PE
Career/Technical education (Vocation/Business): 1 year for both graduation and college
I.T. Essentials Course: 0.5 year, required for everyone for graduation
21st Century Literacies course: 0.5 year, required for everyone for graduation (makes up the other half of the I.T. Essentials block)
And finally, approximately 4-8 classes worth of electives.

 

[hopemax]

I graduated in 1993, and 2 years was the requirement for graduation. College bound it was 3-4. I had friends that were planning on going into a BA they got by with only taking 3 years. If you want to go into a BS, you need the 4 years. Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Calculus. I did all 4.

I took Algebra 1 in 8th grade, so my two "mandatory" years were Algebra 2 and Geometry. However, if you didn't take Algebra 1 in 8th, then your mandatory would have been Algebra 1 & 2. And even those classes, had two tracks based on ability.

I looked up the current requirements for my high school

English 3.5 (Class of 2012 need 4.0 English Credits)
.....9th Grade English 1.0
.....10th Grade English 1.0
......11th Grade English 1.0
.....12th Grade English Elective .5
P.E and Health 2.0
Science - 2.0
.....9th grade and 10th grade Science Sequence
Math 2.0
Social Studies 3.0
.....World Connections 1.0
.....US History 1.0
......World History 1.0
.....Citizenship .5
Occupational/Career and Technical Education 1.0
.....Technology Connections .5 (imbedded in World Connections) and one other .5
.....From Business Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, Technology Ed. or
.....Health Occupations
Fine Arts 1.0 Music, Art or Drama
Electives 8.5

Total Minimum Credit: 23

 

[bettymae1121]

I was class of '94. I think 3 years was required, but I wound up with 4 because I took a computer programing class my senior year and that counted as a math credit for some reason.

 

[NotUrsula]

1979. My state required 2, but my district required 4 unless you were in the Distributed Education program. However, there were 2 math tracks; one for the college bound, and one for those who would not be going -- they were allowed to take bookkeeping as a math class.

I hated math and generally am terrible at it, but I took 4 years of it because I really needed college scholarship money, so I needed a decent math score on my college tests. I squeaked by with a 23 in the math section of the ACT thanks to the extra classes.

 

[Sorsha]

Hopemax: this is completely OT but LOOK! Our siggies match!!

Are you getting excited yet?? I am - I am so excited I can hardly stand it! Have you started packing yet?

 

[DawnM]

Maybe it was the college I went to....I didn't need math there either, at least not for my major.

Dawn

I am the same age as you and the colleges didn't "require" 4 years of math but where I went if you took 4 years of math it satisfied your math requirement in college (before AP classes were really available). We didnt have to take the CLEP test or anything, just having it on your transcript was enough.

 

[hopemax]

Hopemax: this is completely OT but LOOK! Our siggies match!!

Are you getting excited yet?? I am - I am so excited I can hardly stand it! Have you started packing yet?

More

Well, yes and no. My Mom works at WDW, so I get to go about twice a year. So I don't get quite so worked up about each trip anymore. But I am excited because, this is the first trip since 2007, that DH is coming on, so it will be fun to do WDW with him. And he has never been for Food & Wine, so we have a Rewards card that we are just using for sampling, which we are both looking forward to. No packing yet. I'm more worried about the packing we will have to do down there. Four years ago, I bought the WL furniture through MouseSurplus, and we are finally having it shipped from my parent's house to ours. In fact, I just made the reservation with the movers today!

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

My high school was 7th-12th grade. When I graduated (2003), 5 years of math, 5 years of foreign language, 6 years of science, 6 years of english, and 6 years of history.

It is still the same now.

 

[Sorsha]

More

Well, yes and no. My Mom works at WDW, so I get to go about twice a year. So I don't get quite so worked up about each trip anymore. But I am excited because, this is the first trip since 2007, that DH is coming on, so it will be fun to do WDW with him. And he has never been for Food & Wine, so we have a Rewards card that we are just using for sampling, which we are both looking forward to.

Oh fun! We don't get down more than about once every 3 years or so, so we are REALLY excited. Fall is my fav time of year at WDW too, so I am very happy to be back during F&W, and very very happy to be doing MNSSHP, which we haven't done since 2000!!

No packing yet. I'm more worried about the packing we will have to do down there. Four years ago, I bought the WL furniture through MouseSurplus, and we are finally having it shipped from my parent's house to ours. In fact, I just made the reservation with the movers today!

OOOohhh that's cool!! I have always wished I could buy stuff from Mouse Surplus and have little bits of the park sitting about the house. DH just shakes his head at me in that "You've lost your mind, dear" sort of way. LOL

Ok, sorry for the hijack - back to your regularily scheduled thread on education, now!