<p>Hey in my State where education is in the bottom 5 for all states, 20%the students take Calculus in 12th grade at the local publics</p>
<p>But all they do is calculator work and without a calculator can not explain what the hell they are doing</p>
<p>What can you use a calculator for in calculus? I think the only time I use a calculator is in chemistry/physics when the numbers are weird. In math class they usually give you problems with “nice” answers, not answers like 2.92802380234802134 or something like in real life.</p>
<p>I have no idea.
But as the top of Calc class told me
“Oh all we do is plug nmbers into the Calculator”</p>
<p>American math and science education is far behind the rest of the developed world.</p>
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There you go.</p>
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What do you mean by that?
I just meant that once you get to algebra you can do a lot of things with no specific numbers at all, just variables, and the calculator won’t help with that.</p>
<p>You use the calculator a LOT for derivatives and integration. If you need to find the volume of an object and it involves some insane function, you will need that calculator. I’ve used my calculator in calculus just as much if nor more than in precalculus.</p>
<p>“They only give you nice numbers in math.” Heheh. That’s going to change once you get to calc :P</p>
<p>I’ve taken calculus…
I understand that they could give you an insane function, but the part of the problem involving a calculator isn’t usually the part that actually requires knowing calculus. But people say that some schools teach calculus so that you can fake your way through it as long as you have a calculator, and I don’t see how.</p>
<p>I don’t even see how you can “fake” your way with a calculator in Pre-Cal!!!</p>
<p>yes, and I’m one of them</p>
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<p>No it’s not, fractions still count as nice numbers. How do you think I got through multivariable calc without ever using a calculator?</p>