Calculus in Lower Education

Since Calculus is a sort of "big picture" view of what everything in Highschool Math actually means and looks like, should there be some kind of Pre-PreCalculus or Calculus Concepts that can be introdeuced around first year highschool?  So people could perhaps actually understand what it is they're learning?

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wrong way round. the flow of academics is still from Europe to America because of the greater wealth of American universities. That said, ugrad education is better in the UK than US, especially in technical subjects.

>>23mathematics before that was limited to colouring in things under the pretense of 'introducing loci'.

haha yes, and rolling dice to introduce probability. everything useful I learned in year 7 - 9 could have been compressed into one year. top-set kids could be doing a-level work by the start of year 10.