Enter the World in Style
A newborn area-under-a-curve asks about all the strange symbols; its parent explains that calculus notation is the outfit it wears into the world.
Transcript
[A shaded region under a curve, with eyes] "What are all those weird symbols?" [A woman holding a scroll of notation: ∫x²dx, d/dx x², d²y/dx²] "Your clothing, silly! You've got to enter the world in style."
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-10-08-enter-the-world-in-style/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)