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Can you really learn stats without calculus first? How would you explain continuous probability to students? If you're talking about descriptive stats and the p
by hintymad 5y ago
Can you really learn stats without calculus first? How would you explain continuous probability to students? If you're talking about descriptive stats and the parts that do not require calculus, then high school will teach them. As for geometry, isn't it the only course that teaches kids rigorous proof? It helps students build math maturity and is a segway into other type of proofs used in discrete maths.
- zbobet2012 5y agoI'll echo this. Everyone says "learn stats not calculus", but... statistics is based in calculus. Even discrete probability relies on a lot of infinite series. I mean we should definitely teach basic probability and combinatorics early on, but my recollection was that is the case.
- koheripbal 5y agoYou don't need much calculus to teach probabilities. So little that you could cover what you need in the first day/week.