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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.
“How many sides does a ball have?” is a good question to put to her. They recently started learning about 3D shapes in school.