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Reply to "Teachers please explain the mathematics obsession"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, as an employer its got a tremendous sorting effect for me. If you took calculus, I know you can handle complex problems. If you didn't, I assume you can't or that you could but chose to avoid it. Even if I don't need you to do calculus, knowing that you [i]could[/i] is important to me. Its much easier for me to do this using math, which is objective, as a proxy for competence, than other disciplines. [/quote] But just because you find it a useful proxy for hiring doesn't mean it's actually a useful skill for the vast majority of people who are required to take it. Let's just say schools no longer required calculus but instead chess and Suduko. That would then become your new proxy. [/quote]
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