[3RIVRS]

I remember my early Calculus days in college early 80s. My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what it meant.

[jpsb]

Calculus1->slope
Calculus2->area
Calculus3->volume
DiffYQ -> nobody knows

[Don@VB]

It came in handy if you had a 20 Ft inverted conical water tank leaking in your backyard at 2 1/2 Gal per minute and your neighbor wanted to know when the water level would be 10 Ft.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I remember my early Calculus days in college early 80s. My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what it meant.”

That was the same for me. I understood the question, provided the answer, but I had no clue how it is applied in real life situations. All it really did was help me get a better understanding of the process when I took Statistics.

[BobL]

“I remember my early Calculus days in college early 80s. My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what it meant.”

Pretty much the same for all ‘maths’ (a little UK lingo), you find out what it means after you can do it. If you try to understand it first, you’ll never learn it.

Needless to say, the Left flipped the above sequencing, just to achieve their goal of preventing the White Boy from learning.

[Migraine]

I remember my early Calculus days in college early 80s. My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what it meant.

Maybe someone on here can give an example of a calculus problem that illustrates "what is the point of the discipline that makes it different from algebra or trig".

[blitz128]

Took three qrts of calc, never understood what it was for.
Was having an issue and asked friends dad who was a civil engineer and he said I have no idea, got this thick book that basically showed the answer. That was in 1980
Imagine today you want to build a bridge you plug in specifications and design pops out.

Theoretical perhaps, but practical …. Agree need someone to explain that to me.

Of all I learned a squared +b squared=c squared is the most I have ever used.
Have never needed to solve any other polynomial or factor an equation since college😂

[z3n]

I remember my early Calculus days in college early 80s. My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what it meant.

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This is why I enjoyed geometry, trigonometry, statics/dynamics. Even though I never really had much opportunity to use those regularly in real live, at least I could see when learning it why it could be useful.

Many decades later, I still have no idea when or where I will ever need to use a quadratic equation

[John Milner]

“I remember my early Calculus days in college early 80s. My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what it meant.”

Exactly. Figure out how to do the problems and eventually the real world applications (few they may be) start to fit into it.

I had a nephew who went to college for technical subject but dropped out after one year. I tried to tell him the same thing - Figure out how to do the problems and don’t worry about understanding all that theoretical stuff they teach you the first week or two.

[x]

My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what the professor was saying.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I remember my early Calculus days in college early 80s. My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what it meant.

I was fortunate in having a calculus teacher in high school that explained it. Once I got it into my head that calculus is math in motion, I had an easier time with it.

[Night Hides Not]

I remember my early Calculus days in college early 80s. My problem was I could do the math, but I never really understood what it meant.

I had calculus my senior year of high school. I don't recall understanding one thing about it.