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Functional Maths Level-2 Question?

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  • coffeehound
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    Calculus wasn't in the O-level syllabus in the early 1980s
  • Manxman_in_exile
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    edited 6 July 2020 at 7:56AM
    It was on the Joint Matriculation Board O-level syllabus for 1974.  Is it actually true you can study A-level (or whatever it is these days) maths and not do calculus before doing a degree?

    And just as I am struggling with long division these days, I certainly do not remember any calculus except we were doing things like calculating instantaneous rates of change.

    And to the OP - I made a living out of manipulating numbers but reckon I used a calculator for every calculation I ever did at work - umlike some colleagues who were proud of their arithmetical abilities but occasionally got the wrong answer from their heads.  Unless you want to learn some new maths anyway, I wouldn't bother.
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