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| Topic | What's an actual reason to learn math when wolfram alpha exists? |
| lderivedx 04/10/17 11:00:12 AM #19: | Howl posted... It's not so much of that as not understanding the reason for forcing it as general education today when only a tiny minority of people will ever have a practical application for it, and the people who will will learn it as part of their specific educational requirements. Teaching isn't always about giving knowledge. Otherwise, schools would have more about how to do taxes, or interact with other people, or how to process emotions. All of those are much more important to everyone than math is. The utility of teaching calculus is not to teach kids how to find derivatives, but to try to get them to learn how to work with an abstraction and problem solve in a way that's not seen in other fields. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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