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Re:An update on the campaign to defend serious math educatio... by shmde on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:07PM (#31171746)
Lets say you need to find the probability of something happening 10% of the time to 40% of the time, you need to perform definite integration of the curve ( lets say normal curve ) from 0.1 to 0.4 on the x axis multiplied by the normal curve function. This is one of the easiest examples I could remember from my undergrad. We could solve these problems with ease at undergraduate level because we grinded hard during our high school. And also these type of problems were just a subset of the huge variety of problems presented during our undergraduate. But lets say they started teaching calculus only during Undergrad it would have become a tremendous task just to first learn about calculus then start with applying it on other subjects. I am all in for teaching calculus during high school.
Re:An update on the campaign to defend serious math educatio... by BeetleB on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:38PM (#31172170)
> Lets say you need to find the probability of something happening 10% of the time to 40% of the time, you need to perform definite integration of the curve ( lets say normal curve ) from 0.1 to 0.4 on the x axis multiplied by the normal curve function.

No one does this in the real world. Not even professional statisticians who know calculus. In the old days they used table lookups. Today they use software.

You need to understand the concept of areas under curves. Calculus is just a means to compute the area.