I took AP calculus in high school, graduated from Georgia Tech, taught high-school math and finally settled in as an analyst at a major airline. I couldn’t agree more with James Markarian questioning whether calculus is the best fit for most American students (“Who Needs Calculus? Not High-Schoolers,” op-ed, May 15). Calculus, for me, was as Mr. Markarian says, “an attempt to show off skills” I would “never use,” and that it would increase my “chances of [college] admission.” In the professional realm, where Microsoft Excel and databases take up the majority of my day, I see that classes on statistics, coding or computer science would have been far more valuable. I suspect a large number of my peers would say the same thing.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 20, 2018 18:11 UTC