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A comment on Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014).

Re:Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014) by synicalx on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:04AM (#15173313)
Personally, I think math should start at teaching kids useful stuff that 100% of them are going to use such as; taxes, credit products/home loans, budgeting, investments etc. I'm sure calculus is useful and great, but the reality is only a small percentage of kids are going to use it so it doesn't make any sense to force it on EVERYONE.
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Re:Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014) by emmelaich on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:16AM (#15174072)
Yep, my Dad was a educational psychologist who dealt with kids who had problems with learning.

But it was often a matter of motivation because the same kids would be able to calculate the return on a bet at the horse races in their head.

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