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> I wish they were taught in high school, because they would motivate kids to learn graphics and programming. Learned Linear Algebra (matrix calculations and s
by AlexeyBrin 10y ago
> I wish they were taught in high school, because they would motivate kids to learn graphics and programming.
Learned Linear Algebra (matrix calculations and some analytical geometry) + Calculus in eleventh grade, around 1995. I think it was the standard curriculum in all Eastern Europe and the countries from the ex Soviet Union.
- khedoros 10y agoI learned some degree of linear algebra sometime during high school (in optional math classes that a lot of my schoolmates never reached), but mostly as a set of rote-learned operations without a connection to anything useful. As a consequence, I ended up re-learning a lot of it in university, and then catching up on it again on my own while learning about 3D graphics. (American, in high school during early 00's)
- AlexeyBrin 10y agoThe math courses from my first university year where 90% a redo of the math from my last two years of high school. The difference was that in university they emphasized the theory over exercises, basically forced us to learn 1 - 2 hours demonstrations of some theorem.