opinion of trigonometry

[Franzl]

Hated it when I was in Middle School.

Started to like it when I was in College (cosinus blabla).

You took trig in middle school? You must have been an exceptionally gifted math student.

Indeed. Think trigonometry was done in 9th grade at my school. Not exactly difficult material in school, but middle school would be quite early.

[Franzl]

Perhaps Europeans call what we call geometry trigonometry? Trig here is the final course before calculus. Pretty much exclusively 11th and 12th graders.

I doubt it. There's a reason we don't have all those general requirements when starting uni...