/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15704781
this image magically causes people to understand integrals

>>15648580
okay, my guess is that they forget it because the teacher didn't teach in an intuitive way. they were taught to use limits from day one, instead of truly understanding what calculus is. every time i see people complaining about calculus being hard, they act like they've received a revelation whenever i tell them that integrals are a bunch of squares under a curve, and you can add them up. by the way, lots of people don't truly understand what functions are either. i felt enlightened to find out that the X correlates with the Y in a coordinate plane when working with functions. no math teacher ever taught me that