Re:A math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub
by mywittyname on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:17PM
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Isn't that what calculus (the math course) is?
I mean, I don't recall the exact recipe for most calculus operations, even though I spent hours in college learning them. But I do know that I can build a taylor series* to approximate certain functions, and that it will be pretty quick and have a bounded error.
* Use Wolfram Alpha
Re:A math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub
by handrous on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:31PM
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Most math classes are kinda that, but you could get a lot more covered if you focused more on "here's a real world problem, 1) what sorts of math do you need to solve it? 2) OK, now solve it and apply the result (you may use the Web, calculators, apps, whatever)" than "here's how you mechanically follow through with that".
[EDIT] Making the later high school math classes and early university math classes focus entirely on practical application might also be a good idea. I have a feeling it would turn off ~0% people who will eventually become mathematicians, and then the other 200 people in that one mathematician's graduating high school class might actually use what they learned every now and then, once out of school.