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I concur. What's worse was when they finally did get to an example of how you would use something, it was always so contrived as to be pointless. For example,
by vitd 11y ago
I concur. What's worse was when they finally did get to an example of how you would use something, it was always so contrived as to be pointless.
For example, you've learned about dealing with rates of change. Now lets talk about the rate at which we pour water into a bucket.
For the love of god! Stop making problems about pouring things into other things! This has never come up in my life! And as an example, it doesn't help me relate to anything!
- QuercusMax 11y agoI remember the semester I was taking Calc II, I was also playing a lot of the game Terminus. (This was in 2000.) The game prided itself on having realistic space flight physics, so you had to spend the same amount of time accelerating and decelerating when traveling between locations. I remember realizing I could actually use the calculus I was learning to figure out how long / how far it would take to decelerate, and so plan my thruster burns accordingly. Haven't used it since, though... It's a pity.