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Well, AP statistics covered the area under a probability distribution function and people seemed to understand that -- you look up the answer in a table (or use
by SamReidHughes 5y ago
Well, AP statistics covered the area under a probability distribution function and people seemed to understand that -- you look up the answer in a table (or use the TI-83 function). Presumably they'd do the same for a cumulative distribution function.
- bee_rider 5y agoHighschool is pretty early to teach people that math is too complicated for them to actually evaluate their expressions.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoTeaching people that there are lots of problems where solving them numerically is the best way of solving them is often just the truth. Also, you then get to discuss some of the really cool numerical techniques which tend to get short-changed in traditional math classes.
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- novok 5y agoWe already do that in elementary and high school with logarithms, square roots, sin, cos, tan, pi, radians, e, irrational & imaginary numbers, etc. The tables are just built into pocket calculators instead of paper. Even Pythagoras is a bit weird.