Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
by com2kid on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:12AM
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We're talking about HS intro classes, so my use of Linear Algebra was at the same level as saying, well, Algebra. E.g. Non-math major uses of those terms.
Almost any subject in math can go really deep!
Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
by staunton on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:50AM
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Yes. However, I read your post as suggesting (given the quote you respond to) that significant numbers of high school students can/should take university level courses of the same name as their high school courses, presumably because it's the same thing.
Keep in mind that this term covers a huge range of math that can be introduced at very different levels of abstraction and generality. You might think linear algebra is mainly matrix multiplication and Gaussian elimination, someone else might think it's about the representation functor in Abelian categories.