/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.9610939]

>implying calculus is hard

[Anonymous No.9611134]

>I'm really great at calculus, I love it, it proves I'm not a brainlet, but gee, these deltas and epsilons, I don't understand shit about that, what do they even mean?

[Anonymous No.9611143]

>>9611134
tfw destroying my real analysis course but struggled with calc.

[Anonymous No.9611147]

>>9610939

[Anonymous No.9611282]

>>9611147
unironically this i fixed my maths skills going through the algebra and calculus books after becoming a neet

[Anonymous No.9611490]

Someone who says they didn't learnt calculus from spivack didn't do all the exercises and got lost in all the notation.

[Anonymous No.9612036]

>>9610939
>Going back to school after 3 years because I needed money
>Ask math grad friend how to get caught up and prepared for my calc course
>Tells me to do spivak between then and class
>Very difficult but okay, I got this
>Finish 3/4 of spivak by class start
>Way over prepared for any beginner calc stuff
>Just need to learn applications because Stewart's is a shit.

[Anonymous No.9612423]

>>9610939
>take Calc 2 at Uni
>got 97 in Calc 1, loved the stuff
>heard terrible things about the course from my peers, but also heard they rewrote the curriculum, so I wasn't too concerned
>The new changes made all tests--of 3 in total--10 multiple choice questions
>No partial credit
>only other grade was a 10% quiz grade
>No curves
>Once I got to Taylor Series, I ended up dropping because I had no chance of getting a passing grade of >72% (anything lower and I can't advance to the next course)

>multiple choice math questions shouldn't be a thing, especially with no partial credit
>fuck loosing a tenth of a grade just because I forget to carry down a negative sign, after doing a half-page of work and arrive at the correct value (absolute)

[Anonymous No.9612439]

>>9612423
yeah but just think of how easy it is to mark.

[Anonymous No.9612440]

>>9612423
multiple choice calculus exam? wtf is that shit?

[Anonymous No.9612450]

How is Kline's Calculus textbook? I cant afford Spivak ;-;

[Anonymous No.9612454]

>>9612450
pirate bay fool

[Anonymous No.9612461]

If you think any branch of math is easy, you're just not going too deep into it.

[Anonymous No.9612470]

>>9612450
>buying textbooks
What the actual fuck

[Anonymous No.9612473]

>>9612440
Half the AP test

[Anonymous No.9612573]

>>9612439
That's clearly the reason why they did; god forbid if the TA's actually have to work for their free grad school.
The funny thing is that they don't use a real scan-tron with the tests, just a column of boxes to put in all the answers. I'm guessing it's so the TA's can still say they hand-grade every test.

>>9612440
it's like anon said, they changed it so that it could be graded more efficiently. Colleges are a business...

[Anonymous No.9612596]

>>9612423
Why Taylor series? There are much harder topics in calc.

[Anonymous No.9613488]

>>9610939
>implying you will do calc 3/4

[Anonymous No.9613504]

>>9610939
i struggled solving pic related without lhospital since we still didnt learn it.

[Anonymous No.9613567]

>>9613504
Don't know how to factor x^3?

[Anonymous No.9613645]

Calculus is one of those subjects that's talked up so much that it makes it harder than it should be. I'm in Calculus 2 right now and to this day the hardest math class that I had was a Precalculus course. My professor was kenyan and was just trash at teaching trig. It was before I really knew how to do well in math though.

[Anonymous No.9613676]

>>9612596
Bruh I feel bad for you I passed Calc2 with a high B, but if it makes you feel better right now I have a high C in Calc3

[Anonymous No.9613795]

>>9613567
no, i had to learn it.

[Anonymous No.9613802]

>>9613504
actually this is not just factoring. i solved it factoring it in a very specific way.

[Anonymous No.9614293]

>>9613676
>>>/b4c/