Even 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

Even 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".