Is it time to kill calculus?

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5. I'd be satisfied if they learned (actually learned) algebra and geometry, frankly

Even basic principles are too often lacking among many, even college grads. In patient-delivered health care, statistics, epidemiology, building, contracting, construction, you name it: These are skills that are needed.

From my observations, Hospital ERs, ICU's, and practices would do well to ensure their staff can accurately calculate drug dose, especially in constant rate infusions. Computers go down, pharmacists make mistakes, and disasters require old school skills Guess where algebra comes in.

As to calculus, I enjoyed it. Physics too. Both are at use frequently, though we don't recognize it and are not, ourselves, usually performing the calculations. But the concepts underlie a lot of new technologies.