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Originally Posted by wdfifteen View Post
the theory when I was in school was you had to have a year of calculus before you took physics. Calculus made no sense to me until I took physics, then I began to see the beauty, symmetry, and logic of the natural world. I think calculus an physics need to be taught concurrently. The connection between mathematics and the physical world needs to be demonstrated from day one.
That was the way we did it, for the calculus based/College Level, course.
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