Re:To Keep Students in Stem Fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-...
by armchairhacker on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:32AM
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Calculus isn’t something i use regularly as a software dev. I’ve never had to use derivatives or integrals. Even things like sin and cos are often abstracted away.
Meanwhile, discrete math is absolutely something you see in computer science. But, in my high school discrete was the course for people who didn’t like math, as an alternative to precalculus.
It would be much better if schools offered an AP Discrete math, and colleges were more lenient to students who are good the discrete math but for struggle with calculus.
Re:To Keep Students in Stem Fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-...
by moltke on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:44PM
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IMO: If you've learned to study math well you should be good at both. That you're good at one and not the other should make you rethink the way you approach the subject.
Meanwhile, discrete math is absolutely something you see in computer science. But, in my high school discrete was the course for people who didn’t like math, as an alternative to precalculus.
It would be much better if schools offered an AP Discrete math, and colleges were more lenient to students who are good the discrete math but for struggle with calculus.