Do I have any followers that know a lot about the history of education (particularly in the US) who could tell me why I learned calculus and not linear algebra in high school?
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This is the explanation I have always been given as a math teacher and academic, along with "because calculus is used in so many engineering disciplines, it's important we teach it early".
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Do you think it's effective in that sense though? (I really don't know.) There are so many topics in so many areas (not just math) where I think bad orderings *inhibited* my intuition formation.
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