> You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices.
Just going to register my dislike of this particular trope. Mostly because "certain career choices" is doing a huge amount of work. "Certain career choices" can give you access to a very high income. They can give you access to a deeper understanding of some pretty interesting stuff and put you in a position to accomplish all sorts of amazing things.
People use calculus in the sciences, of course, but also in business, the arts, music, politics, and beyond.
We learn calculus when we're young as a part of expanding ourselves, casting the widest possible net to find that intersection of what we're good and and what we're excited by. And to fill our quiver with as many arrows as possible for when we hit the adult world. And, of course, to build our self-esteem by showing ourselves we can accomplish hard things.
But I would highly recommend against taking the attitude that "you'll probably never use it." That's counter-productive. And the people who "don't use things" are boring...
Just going to register my dislike of this particular trope. Mostly because "certain career choices" is doing a huge amount of work. "Certain career choices" can give you access to a very high income. They can give you access to a deeper understanding of some pretty interesting stuff and put you in a position to accomplish all sorts of amazing things.
People use calculus in the sciences, of course, but also in business, the arts, music, politics, and beyond.
We learn calculus when we're young as a part of expanding ourselves, casting the widest possible net to find that intersection of what we're good and and what we're excited by. And to fill our quiver with as many arrows as possible for when we hit the adult world. And, of course, to build our self-esteem by showing ourselves we can accomplish hard things.
But I would highly recommend against taking the attitude that "you'll probably never use it." That's counter-productive. And the people who "don't use things" are boring...