Fri May 11, 2007 2:59 am
Cameron wrote:I've always been good at math. I just completed my first year of university calculus and did fairly well. I found high school math easy. That said, I don't think it's very fair at the amount of people throwing out obscure references and concepts, to show how hard the math they're doing is. Or to say "so and so class is easy; it's hard once you get to THIS". There's always something harder out there, and maybe a PHD student in math will look at a first year calc student complaining about like simpsons rule or multivariable equations and be like "oh that is so easy". Everyone has trouble at different stages, some earlier than others, and I don't think it's very helpful/nice to make them feel even worse by pointing out how much harder later on math is.
I'm just sayin.
Fri May 11, 2007 7:41 am
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Sat May 12, 2007 6:45 am
Cameron wrote:The guy came here asking for help because he respected people here as being smart.
Sat May 12, 2007 10:56 am
bigh0rt wrote:ixcuincle wrote:and I used to like math until the teachers took away my precious graphing calculators and forced us to memorize hundreds and hundreds of formulas by memory instead of being able to write them on cards...
but back on topic algebra is easy it's calculus you should be worried about especially if you have the teachers that don't let you use formula sheets...good luck memorizing Simpson's rule!
Integral approximation -- I know it well.
Sat May 12, 2007 7:08 pm
Sat May 12, 2007 11:43 pm
Axel wrote:My calculus teacher told us that Simpson was an idiot and that there's a much easier way