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>Taking Calc 2 class
>Professor is kind of bad
>Everyone complains whenever she's not around
>The website says the average score for the last test was 24/50 (I got 30/50)
>Class average grade is 45% (I'm at 62%)
How do people this bad even get to be professors?

>> No.9659514

>>9659478
calc2 isn't taken seriously, it's still in the "shit you should have learned in high school and is basically all review" phase.

>> No.9659523

I'm trying to remember why calc 2 didn't just teach integration and leave out the pointless approximation methods which just reduced to memorization.

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcII/ApproximatingDefIntegrals.aspx

Taylor series was useful, but this other rectangle counting bullshit needs to be tossed.

>> No.9659691

Wait. Are you telling me calc ll is mainly integration and series?

>> No.9660084

Those stats and your whining are both normal for an American Calc 2 class.

>> No.9660285

>>9659478
>OP is a brainlet
>class is full of brainlets
>trying to blame someone else
Literally dumb undergrads need to be shot

>> No.9660310

>>9659478
It's impossible to not use the curve these days because students literally get dumber every single year - without putting you all on the curve or dumbing down the the curriculum every year (too much work), you'd all be failed.

>> No.9660325

>>9659523
Because they're trying to teach you what integration actually is, and despite being a tedious calculation, the rectangle approximation helps build an intuitive understanding of integration.

>> No.9660327

>>9659478
>My good grade is someone else's resposibility

You're a petulant child.

>> No.9660333

My calc 2 class got an average grade of 87.

t. community college student

>> No.9660348

>>9660285
>Person responsible for teaching them is bad
>HURR WHY CAN'T THEY LEARN THEY MUST BE BRAINLETS

>> No.9660356

>>9660348
Education is something you do for yourself, not something someone does to you. You'll realize this after you're done with gen eds.

>> No.9660413

>>9660356
Is that why the entirety of western education is built on the instructor/student and mentor/mentee paradigm?

>> No.9660834

>>9659523
If you go into computational math you need to understand those methods very well. In 90% of real life problems you can't integrate things analytically so you get the computer to do it.

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>>9659478
I passed a course where the passing grade was 28/100, some math teacher are just sadist people that enjoy making impossible test.

>> No.9662195

>>9660413

False choice. You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. Inner city niglets, and for that matter any shitty student, who absolutely, positively does not want to learn how to FOIL or whatever today's lesson is,, cannot be made to do so, no matter how hard the teacher tries. The student still has to think for themselves and walk under their own power, at some point. The teacher can't literally go into the student's head and forcibly manufacture an Understanding, but s/he can facilitate the process. It's still on the student as an individual to create their own Understanding.

Moreover, the whole point of a PhD is that a student gets up in front of the teachers and says "see, I am your equal now." And proves it.

>> No.9662222

You would be fucking amazed OP. My Real Analysis professor spent 75% of our lectures talking about white rabbits in Ireland and writing children's books on real analysis.

Literally anyone can get a Ph.D

>> No.9662227

If the tests are designed so that a passing grade (indicating basic competency) was always intended to be around 50%, then that's a perfectly fine test.

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>>9662222
Holy shit these quads confirm. Being a professor does not mean that they are gonna be great orators or teachers. In fact, many times, they suck ass at it.

>talking about white rabbits in Ireland and writing children's books on real analysis
Lulz

>> No.9662300

>>9662222
>Literally anyone can get a Ph.D

Anyone willing to put in the effort. I have to say, the most challenging aspect of my 4-year PhD wasn't of intellectual nature. It was all about beating that desire to walk into the next chippy and dunk your head into the deep-fat fryer to end it all. A PhD is long, arduous, soul-crushing etc., the intellectual challenge is a minor one.

>> No.9662606

>>9659478
>blaming the professor
>not using wolfram and working out 50 examples a day

>> No.9662612

>>9662300
It should not be like that. People need to stop going along to get along with asshat supervisors. The world would be a much better place.