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Re:Do Teachers Need to Include the History of Mathematics in... by joeberon on Sunday December 25, 2016 @10:36AM (#13254376)
Yeah, calculus seems really abstract and pointless until you realise that it's 90% of physics. At school they shy away from calculus so much that you just do a version of physics where they've simplified away the calculus, which is extremely confusing.
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