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Comic #5 — Useless Courses


Cherry-picking individual topics and saying, “See, I never had to use that!” as an argument to invalidate standard mathematics education is a tactic of the anti-math crowd. Sometimes, in order for the machine to work, all the parts have to be in place. Read the first sentence here. Someone, at some point, had to have an understanding of polynomials, derivatives, curve fitting, among other things.

Those voice balloons are mathematically generated!

When Will I Ever Use This?