Is Mathematics the New Latin?
Time in school is limited. Are we requiring the right kinds of math? Who even needs it? Charles Ungerleider is a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia who writes a blog on education and took two years of Latin in three years. SHARES In BC a student seeking undergraduate admissions to arts must have taken Pre-Calculus 11 or Foundations of Mathematics 12. Do the benefits add up? Photo via Shutterstock. When I was in Grade 8, I enrolled in Latin 1 “because,” my mother said, “you can’t get into university without Latin.” This view was corr...
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