Do you seriously need calculus for Med/PA school?

MiamiDAP
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:38:01 +0000

“I don’t like calculus, I find it pointless and overly complicated”
-When people are determined to reach their goal, they do whatever it takes.
My D. spent by far the most time in HS doing history. It is her absolutely hardest class. She wanted to make sure that she would get an A (college class) so she would not have to take it while in college. She reached her goal. More so, just to make sure, she took SAT II in History, since it was not AP. She had extremely busy schedule and she absolutely hates anything connected to history / business / politics / economics. I am not saying that it is a good thing, I told her she will need to improve in these area whenever she has time. But the point is that I never saw her doing math or Spanish or Chemistry, all the ones that she likes, most of the time she was doing History. She got her A (college credit that went straight to her college transcript). That is what people do to reach their goal. You will not get to choose what is required, not now, not in a future. People love their kids but most do not enjoy changing diapers. This is jut life with ALL requirements.
In addition to that, math is the subject that develops logical thinking. This is primary reason for teaching math, not memorizing various formulas that could be looked up on internet. Given the right instructor, math concepts are also much EASIER to be explained and understood than very complicated aspects of history, business, economy, politics (again if are NOT looking at these as a simply memorisation fo facts, names, dates, but rather looking at logical connections, certain structure, various underlining theories and everything that is happenning behind the scenes). However, people who have not developed logical thinking thru math, tend to look at history just as a mesh of some names, dates, places, events.