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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/56030

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My five year old asked me what calceulus is.

The context is that I'm an engineer and she wanted to know what I learned in engineering school, so I said calculus. (In my case, I only made it to pre-calc in highschool.) I swear I'm not the type of parent to try and push this stuff on her. I said it's about understanding how things change and then I tried to illustrate it. I'm open to suggestions on how I could answer her better.

#calculus #engineering #parenting

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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Depends on how smart she is I guess. It is kind of a rare thing for a 5 yo to understand graphs, I think, but maybe she can.

It might mean more to explain some of the cool things you can do with calculus (that a 5 yo would find interesting) rather than how it works.

If she seems interested in math and science stuff there's all kinds of cool things you can do with her.