High school students will be required to take a math class every year to earn a diploma under a plan the state Board of Education approved unanimously Wednesday.
The new high school requirements, approved by the state board during a meeting in Frankfort, start for the graduating class of 2012.
Students will still need the current 22 credit hours for graduation. But those have to include, for the first time, algebra II as well as the currently required algebra I and geometry. The fourth year must be an advanced course and could be trigonometry, calculus, statistics or another high-level math course, said state Board of Education spokeswoman Lisa Gross.
"It cannot be a basic course," she said.
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This is goofy. We have been teaching Alg. I, Geometry, and Alg. II to all kids in Kentucky for almost ten years now. Logically, we would teach Pre-Algebra to kids as freshman but they are assessed as juniors and Alg. II is a big part of that. So we now must come up with some type of senior year math.
What about Calculus? Someone already came up with it?
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