Re:Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential...
by TeMPOraL on Monday September 04, 2017 @02:35AM
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Still, that's not what you grade you for in school. Differentiation is much easier than integration, because for the former you have, within the scope of what they can throw at you on the test, a well-defined set of rules you pretty much mechanically apply to the formula until you can't simplify the answer anymore. Whereas integration is a constant guess-work and performing algebraic magic tricks to maybe make the formula look like something you can tackle with one of the two or three generic methods you've been taught.
Sure, school != reality, but it's the former we get tortured by...
Sure, school != reality, but it's the former we get tortured by...