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Re:Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential... by hyperpallium on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:45AM (#15181876)
Calculus. Surely any child who has ever ran, or ever seen a hill, knows about velocity and slopes - concrete instances of the abstract concept.

But I would say that that's not math, any more than speaking means you know grammar, or digesting means you know biochemistry. Math is formalization.

For calculus, it's slopes at a point without dividing by zero (using the cheat of limits).

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