[fenomas]

Agreed, and it's such a shame! A kid goes to math class and learns, say, derivatives as this weird set of transformations that have to be memorized, and it's only later in in physics class that they start to see why the transformations are useful.

I mean, imagine a programming course where students spend the whole first year studying OpenGL, and then in the second year they learn that those APIs they've been memorizing can be used to draw pictures :D

[meindnoch]

I've never seen an introductory math textbook that didn't point out how position, velocity and acceleration are related by the derivative.

[DrFalkyn]

Rules for derivatives require the least memorization