>This is HW so one that comes to mind is programming. > > Real understanding of exponential growth helps you understand viscerally why, for instance, you shoul

>This is HW so one that comes to mind is programming. > > Real understanding of exponential growth helps you understand viscerally why, for instance, you should nip a viral outbreak in the bud, and reducing the spreadrate even slightly (R0) can make a huge impact later on, even if spread isn't totally stopped. This is all just gibberish if not learned in high school. I think programming/algorithm analysis and things like discrete simulations will give you a more durable notion of basic exponential growth for things like virus outbreaks than high-school calculus which is going to focus on things the derivative of the exponential function being similar to the function and stuff about Euler's number.