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'''Common Core''' refers to an attempt by the [[federal]] government to impose its atheistic, leftist, and sub-standard education curriculum on elementary and high schools nationwide, in interference with the traditionally local control over education.  Sometimes "Common Core" is called "Common Core Standards."

'''Common Core''' refers to an attempt by the [[federal]] government to impose its atheistic, leftist, and sub-standard education curriculum on elementary and high schools nationwide, in interference with the traditionally local control over education.  Sometimes "Common Core" is called "Common Core Standards."

While common core makes fairly detailed recommendations for mathematics teaching in grades K-8, it does not attempt to set curricula for high school, grades 9-12.  Instead, it lists general "categories": Number/quantity, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, Modeling, and Probability/statistics.  The document on the subject, [http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_Mathematics_Appendix_A.pdf here] lists the sorts of things that could be expected to be covered in those categories:  conics, vectors, matrices, functions in general, exponentials and logarithms, complex numbers, polynomials, and trig functions.  These are the usual things that comprise pre-calculus.

While common core makes fairly detailed recommendations for mathematics teaching in grades K-8, it does not attempt to set curricula for high school, grades 9-12.  Instead, it lists general "categories": Number/quantity, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, Modeling, and Probability/statistics.  The document on the subject, [http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_Mathematics_Appendix_A.pdf here] lists the sorts of things that could be expected to be covered in those categories:  conics, vectors, matrices, functions in general, exponentials and logarithms, complex numbers, polynomials, and trig functions.  These are the usual things that comprise pre-calculus.