Why don't American schools use grid paper?

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Any good calculus course will require work to be done on graphing paper.

 

[Wag]

You can't play Wizardry without it.

 

[alfa147x]

I am pretty stupid:

Most of my algebra mistakes could have been eliminated

 

[Eli]

I used it in elementary school, but that was like 20 years ago.. lol.

 

[Matthiasa]

Any good calculus course will require work to be done on graphing paper.

Unless you are working directly of the image, which shouldn't be the case in, a quick sketch done on any type of paper would work just fine. And even then the sketch is only to help clarify and not required.

 

[paulney]

For those asking what's the difference between grid and graphing paper: grid paper usually has a fixed size grid of about 0.5 cm by 0.5 cm and all lines are of equal thickness. Graphing paper is much more fine: the smallest cell is maybe a few millimeters on each side (hence another name: millimeter paper), and bigger clusters have thicker lines outlining them.