I Hate Pre-calc!!!!!

I would never say or insinuate that English is an easy major! Sociology… :smiley:

I guess that says a lot about my 204 Prof, who gave me an A on a paper that was basically recycled from high school:D. The only real changes I made to it were because it had to be a web-page, so I made some pop-ups and some “points to ponder” from random paintings we’d looked at in class. The core material was the same (I retyped half the thing from the original sheet I’d handed in when I was in high school), I just put a few more bells and whistles on it.

I’m getting close to the end of pre-cal – YAY! We have a difficult teacher. Really difficult, possibly because she teaches AP calculus and multivarible calc. Did i mention this is highschool? Anyway, we began with a class a bit over 30. We were down to 15ish in under two weeks. And like zweisamkeit, I too know the unit circle to 16 exact places, and can probably figure a 100 more without a calculator. We get 12-hour long packets for every break, and have been promised a long review/teach yourself the calculus you’ll take next year packet for the summer.

My point in all this? Highschool classes (at least some of them) do have a point.

hehe AP/IB courses :slight_smile:

I still remember the 4th class of intro chem.

0-5 min… crash course on quantum theory.

6-15 min introduction to quantum numbers

16-65 min Making sure that everyone knew this would be on the test in two days.

That was the easiest course I ever had in college in the sciences.

Sweet Zombie Jesus!

2012 - 2002 = 10 years. How’s that for simple math? Dumbass.

Just curious, who are you replying to?

Having gone through EE and physics, Diff Eq was one of the easiest of the advanced math curriculums IMO. I hated it on its own merits, but not because it was hard. Diff Eq is mindless “cookbook math” drudgery, the only thing that makes it hard is that the recipe to follow is relatively long.

To ace a diff eq class…

Identify what cookbook recipe is applicable to your problem
Follow cookbook steps.
If it gets unwieldy (crazy fractions, absurd long decimals) then you made a number crunching error earlier.

From tutoring many others, the most common mistakes were:
Not identifying the recipe to use (word problem paralysis)
Flubbing the number crunching (they made it to diff eq and still don’t know how to manipulate exponents?)

Yikes, a zombie! Didn’t notice the exhuming…

Agreed. Diff EQ is completely paint by numbers. To me, the hardest math to learn/initially grasp were sequences and series at the end of Calc 2 and area bound by planes in calc 3.

Also equally confused at what the person who dug up this thread was referring to.

Yes, because I know in my personal experience that when I need insightful contribution in areas of difficult math or science, I always first turn to my nearest creationist.

I’m closing this because it’s a very old zombie thread, and I banned newtothis00 because he’s an illiterate dumbass troll.