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Now, let me ask you to think about the courses you took in high school. What was the highest level of math that you completed in high school?
Highest level of math completed in high school · Asked in 7 waves, 2006–2018 · 8,477 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2018 | 2018-04-12 to 2018-11-10 | face to face | 2,348 | 1,126 |
| General Social Survey 2016 | 2016-04-05 to 2016-11-19 | face to face | 2,867 | 1,335 |
| General Social Survey 2014 | 2014-03-31 to 2014-10-13 | face to face | 2,538 | 1,190 |
| General Social Survey 2012 | 2012-03-20 to 2012-09-05 | face to face | 1,974 | 906 |
| General Social Survey 2010 | 2010-03-15 to 2010-08-12 | face to face | 2,044 | 674 |
| General Social Survey 2008 | 2008-04-17 to 2008-09-13 | face to face | 2,023 | 1,426 |
| General Social Survey 2006 | 2006-03-07 to 2006-08-07 | face to face | 4,510 | 1,820 |
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Group | No math in hs; didn't go to hs | General math, business, or vocational math | Pre-algebra | One year of algebra | Two years of algebra | Geometry (plane or solid or both) | Trigonometry/linear programming/analysis | Pre-calculus | Calculus | Statistics/probability | Other | n | MoE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | 2% | 12% | 3% | 15% | 18% | 14% | 10% | 8% | 13% | 3% | 1% | 1126 | ±4 | |
| 18–29 | 1% | 3% | 5% | 14% | 17% | 11% | 5% | 16% | 20% | 7% | 1% | 192 | ±9 | |
| 30–44 | 1% | 7% | 3% | 13% | 26% | 12% | 10% | 9% | 15% | 4% | – | 317 | ±7 | |
| 45–64 | 3% | 16% | 3% | 16% | 18% | 13% | 12% | 6% | 10% | 2% | 2% | 358 | ±7 | |
| 65+ | 4% | 20% | 1% | 17% | 11% | 22% | 15% | 2% | 6% | 1% | 0% | 254 | ±7 |
General Social Survey 2018 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.