Link because I thought it wasn't real at first.

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Basic calculus up to simple Differential Equations, Algebra up to Quadratics, and the basic Statistical tests should be a minimum.

    Agreed on algebra (lots of practical uses) and statistics (used extremely often now, and often to mislead). But calc? I know a nuclear engineer who had trouble helping her kid with basic calc because she hadn't used it since college.

    Totally agreed that the way we teach has a big impact on how difficult it is to learn, but that's an independent issue.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      For calc it's not so much so that they can solve it on paper but that they recognise "this is gonna need a differential equation" and can then decide on plugging it into a computer or finding a nerd.