I don’t know about the author’s take. It’s good at first blush but the aftertaste feels like a bad over-simplification. It implies to the audience (ahem dumbass

I don’t know about the author’s take. It’s good at first blush but the aftertaste feels like a bad over-simplification. It implies to the audience (ahem dumbass high schoolers) that Calculus is just brain teasers. So then, if they just do brain teasers like crossword puzzles or something (remember, high schoolers), they’re getting a substitutable “workout”. Which they’re clearly not. The other thing is the ironic self-fulfilling prophecy wrapped up in all of this: the question is “when will we use calculus?” the “answer” is “never”; the jobs that don’t require calculus are the ones filled by people who never mastered calculus. They’re also statistically speaking, the lower paying jobs. I work in a field that I’m not particularly fond of that has nothing to do with calculus, yet, given that it’s the 21st century, and given that AI is on the rise as an applied technology, rest assured that EVERYTHING uses Calculus.