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Um, riiight. Are the kids doing differential calculus in high school now? Or is there another paper entitled "Ordinary Differential Equations for High School
by seanc 18y ago
Um, riiight. Are the kids doing differential calculus in high school now? Or is there another paper entitled "Ordinary Differential Equations for High School Students"?
- yummyfajitas 18y agoUm, yes they are doing ODEs in high school. Not all of them, but a few.
- seanc 18y agoOK, call me an old fart then. I did AP Calculus in '92, and ODE was certainly NOT on the list. I shouldn't be surprised I guess. After all, once upon a time Special Relativity was graduate level material. One more sign that the singularity is near, I suppose...
- lincolnq 18y agoIt's not on the AP. I did more differential equation stuff in the AP physics course that was taught in parallel with the AP calc course. Mostly simple stuff like coming across the differential equation "a = -w^2 x" and having to solve it (x = sin wt -- simple harmonic motion). We didn't often have to solve new ones on our own. This lecture would definitely be understandable to the students in that class though.
- Luc 18y agoI had ODEs and integration in the last year of high school (8h/week of math).