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   hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 11:32:14 JST hankg

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   • JordiGH
   @JordiGH I just found out that they teach DiffEq at high school level around us for the advanced math classes. High school!
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     JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 11:32:15 JST JordiGH

     Hey, mathematical pedagoguges, are they still teaching that differential equations class in university that's a bunch of 18th and 19th century tricks to produce closed-form solutions to a narrow zoo of equations, or is everything more oriented towards describing dynamics now?

     Or do you just grab a computer and punch stuff into it and get pretty graphs?

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     hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 11:43:17 JST hankg

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     • goatsarah
     @JordiGH @goatsarah It's been since the 1990s that I took these classes but I think one of the big difference with DiffEq class was the introduction of partial differential equations instead of the ordinary differential equations we had worked with before. It's possible that the names of classes have changed and "differential equations" today equals "differential calculus" of my days. But even then, and I went to a college prep school, it was only the AP math group that learned calculus. The most everyone else got was "pre-calculus"