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Calculus. Surely any child who has ever ran, or ever seen a hill, knows about velocity and slopes - concrete instances of the abstract concept.

But I would say that that's not math, any more than speaking means you know grammar, or digesting means you know biochemistry. Math is formalization.

For calculus, it's slopes at a point without dividing by zero (using the cheat of limits).




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