Scott N Denver
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Not all NT's are good at math, no, but they're more likely to appreciate it for its' purpose.
Calculus and trig suck though; they are used to draw a curve on a graph. If yeu don't have graph paper, then yeu don't need it. And a computer does the same thing better anyway.
I loved algebra because it had such useful application all the time... calculus I got bored of and didn't do well in since there was no purpose behind it. Yay waste of my time to learn this crap. Yes, it's complex, but no, it has no value on day to day life. Yeu will NEVER need calculus unless yeu're plotting a curve on a graph, because all it's used for is to define a value which changes in a non-linear, yet still predictable way.
If yeu're not a physicist, working with maps, or trying to figure out some really complex stuff, it's not useful, and 95% of the world's population will have absolutely zero use for it.
The only reason they teach it in high school, that I can figure, is to make it so the people who are considering classes related to that in university will realize it sucks and back out early.
I was gonna have a field day with this, but then I saw the bolded part. There is far more to science and engineering than just physics, but know that calculus, and in particular its extension to differential equations [ordinary, partial, including the non-linear versions of both], lies at the FOUNDATION of science and engineering. As expressed in several textbooks on the subject, ALL major laws of science are written as and expressed as [possibly systems of] partial differential equations.
I've met plenty of NT's who are weak at math. As one peer told me "many physicists are scared of math, or at least find it pretty dull and want to pass over it as quickly as possible."