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Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by sudobash1 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:05PM (#28132126)
It was really helpful to me in highschool that the calculus teacher was also the physics teacher, and many students were enrolled in both classes simultaneously. You ended up learning both at the same time.
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Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by QuercusMax on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:24PM (#28132363)
Teaching calculus through physics (and vice versa) actually makes a lot of sense.

Similarly, basic Linear Algebra and 3D graphics have great synergy. I took LinAlg and Computer Graphics the same semester in undergrad, and the first half of LinAlg led perfectly into the second half of CG. (The first half of CG was all 2D stuff, which didn't need any special math.)

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