All you need is ganas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yqIm58ULo
That's funny!
I seem to recall using it quite extensively in my profession.
We drove to the local junior college at 6:30a.m. for college Calculus, and then we drove to high school at 7:30. 1965-66.
What an idiotic idea!
When my kids complained about their math homework, with the typical, “I’m never gonna use this in real life,” excuse, I countered with this.
Higher mathematics teaches you to think abstractly. It develops synaptic connections and pathways in your mind that will give you an advantage in problem solving, textual comprehension, cognition, and thinking speed in adulthood.
The only reason I can imagine to minimize, dismiss, or eliminate mathematics is that more and more teachers have degrees in crap like Gender Studies than in classical liberal arts: mathematics, surveys of history, the sciences, and literature, ethics, rhetoric, logic, Greek, Latin, and at least one other language.
Next will be algebra.
Then multiplication and division.
Then reading and writing.
Don’t need calculus to carjack-—rob-—& other activities.
And when POCs don’t get jobs as engineers they can blame racism.
No calculus, no modern society. It is that simple.
It is a selector. If you don’t have the smarts to pass calculus, you will not do will in most technical or analytical majors in a rigorous school (then again, these days, how many schools are still rigorous?).
In fact, Calc is a lot older than that. And I'm sure there's many a electrical, mechanical, aerospace and many other engineers who would dispute such a silly claim of it being "bankrupt", whatever that is even supposed to mean. Someone has to make the engines run and the rockets keep from exploding on the pad. Obviously, it's isn't this biology professor.
Right. Let’s use African math instead.
No math in any of those titles.
Typical -- probably flunked calculus or got a low grade, and is now trying to get his revenge.
I think we should get rid of schools that get rid of standards.
For engineering you need calculus. For art, history, English literature, foreign languages, you do not. For business administration you need business math. A high school college prep kid can take 2 years of algebra and 1 year of geometry and 1 year of business math and be completed ready to do college non-engineering. How much calculus does a chemistry or biology or botany major need? Calculus is for engineering.
Basic calculus is the first math students encounter that enables simple modeling of how the world works. The concepts of first derivatives, second derivatives, integration (area-under-a-curve) are fundamental to a basic understanding of our world.
Sure one can get by without, because stuff like acceleration, momentum, gravity, all work even if one doesn’t understand the basics about them. And obviously people can develop an intuition about such things by other means. But absent a basic understanding of calculus you are flying blind.
The same can be said for basic statistics and probability.
Don’t get me started on basic engineering physics or electronics — so many people cruising through life without understanding how phones, radios, engines, airplanes, and so on work. I can’t imagine living like that where everything around you that makes society tick is so opaque.
I feel similarly about important legal principles like contract law, real property law, torts, and so on. They also work and effect your life even if you do not understand them.
Bfl