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I'd be very curious to see what a primary and secondary school math program that aggressively focused on the "what will I ever use this for?" question, for most
by handrous 5y ago
I'd be very curious to see what a primary and secondary school math program that aggressively focused on the "what will I ever use this for?" question, for most people, not just future physicists and math majors, and tailored its curriculum to that with mostly applications-based problem sets, looked like. I suspect it'd provide a lot more value to ~99% of students while never providing more than a "here's what these other branches of math you probably won't need are for, so you know what to look up or when to go learn them, on the off chance you ever do need them" survey for much of what's covered from ~8th-12th grade now, but maybe I'm wrong. I also doubt it would discourage many future math majors.