The dunk already happened as you can see but here's the link if you wanna go marvel at the real thing: https://twitter.com/renatokara/status/1412484734949675013?s=19

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    remembering a day in high school in 2008 (:curious-marx:) i saw a cover for The Economist magazine or w/e depicting a bunch of revolutionaries holding a flag that said "DEATH TO DERIVATIVES"

    that was my mood throughout high school calculus

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I think the additional rules isn't the hard part for most people, it's the problems that come on exams that require you to actually understand the theory and apply it to a word problem.

        Edit: thinking more about this, on my Calc 1 final I had a problem I'm sure a lot of students saw and immediately moved on.

        Let f(x) = e^x. If F(x) is an antiderivative of f(x) and g(x) is a derivative of (f), then find the derivative of the function F(x)-g(x)

        It's obviously a really really easy problem and the math on it is nothing but d/dx[(e^x + C) - e^x] = d/dx( C ) = 0. But the fact you need to know what all those words mean together is IMO what makes calc a hurdle for most people.