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[quote=Anonymous]In my MBA program, there was a clear distinction between those who had a practical, working knowledge of calculus and those who didn't (including me).  There were entire chapters of finance where I was reduced to learning and regurgitating formulas because I had no real idea what the profs were trying to convey through the long tedious lectures that I was sitting through without understanding.  I still got As, but it was by virtue of rote memorization.

Later in life, I picked up and worked my way through a conceptual book about calculus (originally written in like 1911 and still in print), and I finally got an approximate understanding of basic calculus, which helped me better understand a lot of things that I've tried to learn since (algorithm design, AI and machine learning).

I'd encourage your daughter, if at all possible, to seek out less rigorous, less formal, more conceptual books on math to get an intuitive understanding to back up the formal math learned in school.  I wish I'd done that 25 years earlier than I did.[/quote]

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