At my university, almost all of the math majors and a fair number of engineering students graduated high school with calculus credits. I think the person is ma

At my university, almost all of the math majors and a fair number of engineering students graduated high school with calculus credits. I think the person is making a fair distinction that most brains are okay at math — and some at each end of the bell curve are good or bad at math. - - - - - A few asides: - really understanding exponential growth requires derivatives/rates of change - we do a bad job at conveying math subjects in education; you can teach kids the basics of abstract algebra and calculus if you tie the ideas to familiar concepts - we should definitely rework the curriculum in light of computers