I want to agree with this; but a little knowledge of stats can be worse than none. (Whereas trig is just a painful waste of time.) Can the intro course explain its own limits, and the dangers of misuse?https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/951282864498372608 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
See I am an outlier here, but I use trig-like computational geometry almost daily. Mostly linear algebra style because that is sane in 3D, but I still use "sine=opposite/hypotenuse" monthly.
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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness
Like most parts of school curriculum, parts of math are oddly stylized and divergent from actual practice. Geometry is good example. Only class where you do formal proof, major part of math, but format is weird, prob hybrid of medieval scholastic and 1800's textbook.
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I think I’ve read that high school math curriculum was designed for 1800s military officer training (including trig for naval navigation and artillery trajectories) and hasn’t been revised significantly since then.
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