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Re: Motivating Students

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
Let me ask you older people, what in the world would I use pre calculus stuff like Graphing and analyzing a polynomial equation in my life?
Get hold of an engineering textbook or three in your preferred discipline. If you can't find at least one place that uses stuff that you currently don't know what use it is, or worse, uses something that is based on that, let me know.
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