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Re:Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum a... by Retric on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:28PM (#24880172)
I would suggest replacing a chunk of geometry. Teaching students the names of the Platonic solid’s for example is seemingly vastly less useful than basic financial literacy. As a math class you can cover plenty of useful ideas like risk assessment at the same time.

Alternatively, I would drop things to 3 years of English to add a year of Home Economics that covered basic cooking, practical nutrition, taxes, personal finances including insurance, and saving for retirement. All I can recall from mine was a few weeks we learned how to fill out a check and sew a pillow.

Re:Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum a... by leetcrew on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:14PM (#24880532)
> I would suggest replacing a chunk of geometry. Teaching students the names of the Platonic solid’s for example is seemingly vastly less useful than basic financial literacy.

I don't have a good argument against, but this makes me sad to read. learning all the names for different shapes was the first (and last, until I got to college) time that I found math interesting.