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Surely there are ways to exercise one's brain that also happen to be useful in everyday life. It's hard to pick something that everyone would find useful and e
by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Surely there are ways to exercise one's brain that also happen to be useful in everyday life.
It's hard to pick something that everyone would find useful and engaging, so I understand why schools just pick an arbitrary subject and stick with it.
It would be nice if they were honest about it. If they were, they might say something like "We could train your brains with something fun like chess practice, or something useful like programming classes and statistics. But we already have calculus teachers around because some kids will become engineers or whatever, and we don't want to hire a thousand teachers for a thousand niche subjects so we'll use the teachers we already have".
- weaksauce 4y ago> We could train your brains with something fun like chess practice, or something useful like programming classes and statistics. except probability and stats does require calculus. maybe not at the high school level but if you are doing it in college it's almost certainly going to have some needing of calculus.
- eastbound 4y agoHow can one be a citizen if they don’t understand stats, and how to cheat them? The citizenship should only be automatic if you pass that class. Which is what the majority at 18 intends to do.
- saint_fiasco 4y agoEven better. If you teach them basic statistics first, you can teach calculus later and they won't have to wonder why. Just tell them they need calculus to make statistics easier. That's what my physics teacher did. Whenever he had to explain something basic about Newtonian mechanics he would say "this would be much easier to explain if you knew calculus already".
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