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Topic	What's an actual reason to learn math when wolfram alpha exists?
Howl 04/10/17 11:09:30 AM #23:	Asherlee10 posted... Several great answers in this topic. Wonder if TC will admit he is wrong? Wrong? This is the the best response so far, but it still isn't even close to a compelling enough reason for it to be part of graduating high school yet... lderivedx posted... 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. What's worse is he even made an even better argument for why things like learning about taxes should be taught in high school than he did for calculus. I took Calculus in high school and got an A in it but it was an entire waste of time even back then. It's an even bigger waste of time for people now that technology has improved so much. --- woof <cite>Howl posted [p:876909384] in What's an ... [t:75220407]...</cite> <quote><cite>Asherlee10 posted...</cite> <quote>Several great answers in this topic. Wonder if TC will admit he is wrong?</quote> Wrong? This is the the best response so far, but it still isn't even close to a compelling enough reason for it to be part of graduating high school yet... <cite>lderivedx posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Howl posted...</cite> <quote> 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.</quote> 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.</quote> What's worse is he even made an even better argument for why things like learning about taxes should be taught in high school than he did for calculus. I took Calculus in high school and got an A in it but it was an entire waste of time even back then. It's an even bigger waste of time for people now that technology has improved so much. --- woof</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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