> Kiddie Calculus for botanists? <
As someone who took four semesters of “serious” calculus, I never had a problem with those watered down calculus courses. My calculus was meant for the natural science and engineering folks.
The other calculus was for the life science folks. It covered applications relevant to them. Nothing heavy, because it just wasn’t needed. But if you chose to take the life science calculus course, it wouldn’t count towards a natural science or engineering degree.
Yeah, I agree. You really don’t need to know how to do line integrals or partial differential equations to be an effective insect scientist, or even a decent doc.
I just have fun listening to them preen about how smaht they is cuz they got an A in Organic. Yawn. I was the high score out of 400 people on the Chem final. Never did chemistry again except for gas dynamics and a bit of combustion chemistry. But all those kidz who scored lower then me? They’re all operating on people right now! Yikes!
Just kidding. You don’t need to understand the intricacies of eigenvectors to triage a broken ankle. the guy building the prosthetics for that might need to, not the Applied Biological Technician (er, “Medical Doctah”) installing it.
I guess I don’t have a problem with it per se, but its concerning that we’re getting treatment from people that need the decaf version.