We've been reading it to Phoebe for ages (since she was very much an infant), but in much the same spirit that we've read her a lot of things: less out of the expectation that she'll really understand it, and more just for the shared reading experience.
There's really not a lot of actual calculus, as you say: probably not much more than the page about derivatives and the one about global extrema. But there's obviously a lot of more generic math (everything from absolute value to zero crossings), all presented just as a gallery of examples rather than with any attempt to explain it. It's definitely cute and funny, and maybe a nice way of getting some math culture into a kid's environment.
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There's really not a lot of actual calculus, as you say: probably not much more than the page about derivatives and the one about global extrema. But there's obviously a lot of more generic math (everything from absolute value to zero crossings), all presented just as a gallery of examples rather than with any attempt to explain it. It's definitely cute and funny, and maybe a nice way of getting some math culture into a kid's environment.
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