📚 Education Jul 23, 2026 · Liz Cohen

Do Students Still Need to Learn Calculus?

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Do Students Still Need to Learn Calculus?
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In his new book Aftermath, Ted Dintersmith joins a growing chorus of policy wonks, researchers, and advocates who say that the age of calculus is behind us and that future math education should focus entirely on statistics and relevancy to students’ lives. “The tragedy is that 50% of high schools still do offer calculus,” Dintersmith writes. “That we cling to obsolete priorities.”
This approach is misguided. Dintersmith writes engagingly about interesting real-world math applications that may we

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