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Why studying calculus is important – even if you don’t use it

Teaching applicability to my students is my number one goal as an educator because if my students can see the applicability, they will be more willing to put in a greater effort.  This is especially true in subjects such as math where students have a really hard time seeing where they will ever use this material. For further reading on this check out my post why do we need to learn this, we are never going to use it. 
This posting was originally posted by othersideofscience.com and can be found HERE:
Learning maths is supposed to be a pretty important thing to do. Counting is important, multiplying is important and percentages are important. But calculus…how important is that? Is it really necessary for us to learn about calculus, trigonometry, algebra and all those other things that most of us are never again going to use in their life? I mean, I’m a scientist and I haven’t used calculus since first year uni.

But just because I don’t use it directly, doesn’t mean it’s not worth studying. Here’s why

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Calculus is a branch of mathematics that is all about mapping change. You get a series of mathematical equations that come together to tell you how things change over a period of time.

It’s used by loads of industries. Economists use it to predict maximum profits through calculation of future costs and revenue and it’s (supposed) to be used by scientists in population dynamics and particle physics.

But even with all these undoubtedly important uses, how many of us are really going to be motivated to study it in the hopes that one day, we might somehow, be roped into an industry where we just might have to perhaps pretend to know how to do some sort of semblance of calculus? Good point, why indeed?

When I was in high school, there was a large part of me that knew I was probably going to become either a mathematician or a scientist. But with all that, I still decided to take up Drama Studies. If you think about the rationale of studying something just for a direct benefit, my choice to take up drama was a pretty stupid one.

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