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.
Let me ask you this, do you know how to budget?
We over provision for higher level arithmetic but don’t teach fundamental arithmetic for living successfully in our society.
Budgeting and more probabilities/statistics are where I think it should be.
Both of those directly relate to improving your life.
And fucking Excel. Better yet teach budgeting and spreadsheet courses in one.
If people had stats, budgeting and excel it would be an incredible improvement.
Budgeting also only gets you so far in our dystopian age when you need 2 full time jobs to pay rent.
Budgeting and filing taxes, please!
*And understanding credit card debt
“The most powerful force in the Universe is compound interest.”
No banking corporation wants people to understand this.