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| Topic | What's an actual reason to learn math when wolfram alpha exists? |
| Shadow Don 04/10/17 11:54:29 AM #35: | Howl posted... 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. The fact that most people probably won't use advanced math is different from the argument that wolfram makes learning advanced math useless. Wolfram itself is useless if you don't even know how to form the proper formula to put into it. Translating real life problems into formulas to plug into wolfram is where the difficulty of mathematics is and basically the entire point of learning mathematics for the purpose of real world application. I mean think about your argument for a second... whats the point of learning how to add when your calculator can add for you? Well... if you don't know what addition even is then you won't know how to plug addition problems into your calculator. Wolfram and calculators are merely a tool and tools are useless if you don't know how to use them properly. --- sigless user ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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