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From: avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed)
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Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
Summary: High school is LATE for Calculus
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Date: 22 Feb 88 16:46:49 GMT
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In article <3437@killer.UUCP>, elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
> Re: Heinlein's "Tunnel in the Sky": I've always wondered why (some) people
> praise Heinlein (or at least "early" works of his). The book is lousy. But
> there's one scene, where the protagonist is watching wagon trains go through
> the "tunnel", where we learn that he, a high school student, has passed well
> beyond Calculus in his mathematics education -- and that such is the norm for
> high school students in his society. What an optimist Heinlein was!

Only by North American standards. In the Lukasiewicz curriculum (used
in Poland and, in slightly modified form, in Hungary, Japan and Korea)
the Calculus is taught in the 5th and 6th grades.
					Adam Reed (mtgzz!avr)