Timeline for Emphasizing Statistics instead of Calculus
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| Apr 8, 2018 at 0:20 | comment | added | guest | Two other math subjects that are VERY common in the workplace: basic business math (even a very, very simple accounting module) and use of Excel (for data or for $). It's funny but the home ec and shop math track actually has a lot of important things! | |
| Apr 8, 2018 at 0:18 | comment | added | guest | He's right of course. Someone further down makes the point about learning calculus based physics, but there's probably a benefit even for the calc track kids to get an easier, more intuitive exposure to stats first and go more theoretical stats if needed (most of the benefit comes from the easy version anyways). | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 19:35 | comment | added | Tom Au | @MattF.: Learning statistics and "how to compute and average height" might be a good "fallback" position for someone interested in math but is incapable of calculus. | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 7:56 | comment | added | user173 | This almost answers the question "how can statistics be used?"...but how is it useful to compute an average height? | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 20:14 | history | answered | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |