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William Lewis2/16/2011 6:24:09 am PST

re: #367 reine.de.tout

OK, I’ve gotta brag for


Please, forgive me, this is unseemly to do, I know …

Daughter had to take calculus this semester. I fretted and fretted about this, because I’ve heard so many really awful things about calculus; told her if she found she needed a tutor, be sure to let us know, we’d do whatever we had to do to make sure she passed the course.

Well, turns out - she gets it. She understands it. It’s time-consuming; she spends 4-6 hours outside of class working on the assignments, but when I asked her how it was going, her response was, “It’s fine. I guess we’re still doing the easy stuff”.

Easy stuff?

I barely passed basic college math. How I managed to give birth to a kid who likes and understands math is beyond me …

Good for her. The funny thing is that, in many ways, Calculus is more fun than much of what comes before. It’s especially nice when you suddenly realize you can describe something with an equation that would take a chapter of writing to explain.