When you answer, try listing the USEFUL points about calculus in REAL LIFE. Other than Engineering and Physics. Really. It's all bull. I have an 85% average yet I barely pass this.
2007-01-12 03:00:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Rocket science.
2007-01-12 03:07:34 · answer #1 · answered by catarthur 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's because mathematics is just a part of learning. One can make the argument about other subjects too; I'm never going to write a 10 page essay in my life, so what's the point in taking the concepts used in English?
I think the subjects we learn in school is a good demonstrator of balance; English for reading/writing, and mathematics for its logic and reasoning. If you have an 85% average but unable to pass Calculus, you'd best figure out how to solve that dilemma instead of question why you're doing the subject in the first place.
2007-01-12 03:10:54 · answer #2 · answered by Puggy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on whether you are going to make a living out of calculus. Its not that useful for the average person but there are some common problems that are very difficult to work out if you don't use calculus.
If you are in the know you can use your calculus skills to get the correct answer in a couple of minutes. If you aren't you might spend 15 minutes and only get an approximation.
2007-01-12 03:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's the point in using a hammer then?
A nail-gun.....a paint brush......a floor jack.......a calculator?
Math is a tool, just like the items above. It's not suppose to create peace on earth and bring good will to men. It's a tool to solve problems man....lol.
You have to learn how to use it just like any other tool. You have to learn how to drive....how to play basketball, swim, ski and on and on. You have to learn how to do everything.........right?
Not everyone uses a hammer.....but if you want to nail a couple boards together or build a house, it's useful to have. Same with math. Not everyone is going to use it every day of every week of every year of their life, nor should it have to be to be useful.
Take dry gas for instance. In cold climates, it can help you get your car started, and sometimes it's the ONLY way you have a shot and getting going again. And you use it......once....maybe....every few years. It's been decades since I used it, but yanno what? I have a bottle I keep in the car in winter.
Learning math helps shape how you think. Shows you how to think in creative ways. What you know and how you use it helps shape the kind of person you are. It's really nothing more than a glorified set of rules for different kinds of puzzles. Math is a puzzle...like a game. They give you some info....and then you see how clever you are at figuring out what's missing. Better still....you can use it to discover cool things, or understand something better that you already knew about.
Math has its place, just like any tool. Not everyone needs it, not everyone uses it, but it is as necesary to our culture and civilization as automobiles and computers.
Broaden your horizons a little bit....learn somehting new. Don't turn into yet another narrow minded, ignorant human being that consumes without offering something productive.
Be accepting to new ideas. Who knows, you might run across a problem someday and need that tool!
2007-01-12 03:20:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are only 5 career fields in life. They are:
Engineering
Law
Medicine
Business
Art
You need to AT LEAST be familiar with calculus to be successful in Business, you need to know calculus pretty well in medicine, and you need to know calculus backwards and forwards in engineering, unless you are a Civil engineer.
So I would say that unless your career falls under Law or Arts, or you plan on being a laborer, you should learn calculus.
2007-01-12 03:30:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will choose calculus to bypass calculus to coach on your mothers and dads that they ought to waste a gaggle of money sending you to college rather of procuring for a clean convertible and telling you to connect the army.
2016-10-07 01:25:49 · answer #6 · answered by esannason 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calculus helps develop critical thinking and problem solving skills as well as makes you really good at algebra.
2007-01-12 03:07:15 · answer #7 · answered by Jack D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Help you find the easist way to pass a river
2007-01-12 03:31:21 · answer #8 · answered by JAMES 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work in engineering and use it often. If you plan to pump gas or dig ditches, it's probably useless to you. Believe it or not, you can't study economics without it.
2007-01-12 03:10:43 · answer #9 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will help you do certain jobs. It depends on the career field you are going into. I do not know any specific jobs, maybe computer programming??
2007-01-12 03:07:50 · answer #10 · answered by mark p 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋