Who Gives a Rats Patootie About High School Calculus?
School Should Be More Than Preparation for More School By Tom Magliozzi Despite the fact that all of my being wanted to cry out in despair, I sat there quietly in my son’s math class. It was back-to-school night at my son’s high school, a time for parents to spend 15 minutes in each of their kid’s classes so that the teach could describe what the course if all about. And on the board was the following description–Get this–Calculus is the set of techniques that allow us to determine the slope at any point on a curve and the area under that curve. And all of my being wanted to cry, “So who gives a rat’s patootie?” I mean, sitting in that math class, it occurred to me that I had almost never had occasion to use any of the mathematics I had almost never had occasion to use any of the mathematics I had learned beyond maybe long division. Later that night, I changed my mind. It wasn’t true that I had never used any of the math I had learned in school. I had, in fact, used all of it, but on
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