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by hemdawgz 3431 days ago
Explaining the basic concepts of calculus is very different from teaching someone to actually be able to apply them.
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Application of calculus to the real world, in its most basic form, is basic physics. The whole point of people who aren't planning on building on calculus with further mathematics taking calculus is to better understand the world and how it works, not to be able to derive stuff, I think.