Re:The Mathematical Hacker
by dinkumthinkum on Friday December 23, 2022 @04:49PM
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You are right about the 50% but you might as well have said “fewer than 99%”. I mean, the real number is far, far less. A very small percentage of US residents would recognize and calculus or be able to solve a simple linear equation.
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Apparently around 15% of highschoolers take calculus. I dunno, I think “significantly less than 50%” has a generally right-ish feeling, sort of like, something that most people don’t do but not like super-esoteric. But it is subjective.
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/calculus-is-the-pea...
It is possible that the majority of students forget it though, I tutored calculus for a bit and it didn’t always seem like their hearts were in it.