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To: grundle
“High school calculus is a complete waste of time and a form of torture,” said Alan Garfinkel, professor of integrative biology and physiology and medicine at UCLA. “The view … that math is a bunch of symbolic expressions, and you bang on them with tricks to get other symbolic expressions, is a bankrupt concept of math, dating from the 19th century.”

Interesting that they quote a biology / medical professor on the importance of calculus. Whatever... the way it has been taught produced scientists and engineers who split the atom, got us to the moon and back, and developed modern telecommunications. So obviously it must go!

39 posted on 03/13/2023 2:17:43 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: Rummyfan

He has a PhD in mathematics of some sort.

The last time I knew, if you can even get Calc in high skrewl, it’s an elective.

Nobody is requiring kids to take it in order to get a bogus diploma.


44 posted on 03/13/2023 2:21:24 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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