timtyler comments on What is wrong with mathematics education? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 20 March 2011 04:37:33PM *  0 points [-]

Right - but not really. Discrete maths is what you get with computer science. Calculus is very low on the curriculum there - and rightly so. So: pushing calculus back in schools makes perfect sense.