Comment With AI (Score 1) 259
Do people really actually truly need to know every single detail of higher maths? People use math to solve a problem, so most people only need to know what type of maths to use in what situation. Someone who can't solve an equation on paper but can say what type of equation the computer needs will still be find the solution. Nobody in STEM is working on paper, even if they technically could. If maths was approached in such a conceptually focused way it would push way more people past that impossible barrier keeping people out of STEM. Settle down if your upset, I'm not here suggesting postgrads would do this, but not everyone needs to be a senior project manager with a lifetime spent in school and 200 years of experience. What we do need is people who can solve problems with the tools available to them, and that's what we should be focusing on.