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Re:Vi Hart: Every school should replace calculus with recrea... by ThomPete on Thursday March 31, 2011 @06:53AM (#2391044)
I don't know why people would down vote you. Perhaps they haven't read Seymore Papert "Mindstorms"

Here is the thing. The computer can simulate more or less anything so when dealing with abstract concepts such as math, what better way is there than to combine math with experimentation.

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Re:Vi Hart: Every school should replace calculus with recrea... by crasshopper on Thursday March 31, 2011 @07:18AM (#2391085)
Monte Carlo, por ejemplo. FEM, por ejemplo.

And once you've struggled to solve the problems that can't be brute forced away, you start wondering if maybe a little linear algebra wouldn't do you good...

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