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oh boy the joys I get to enjoy next semester, oh wait I'm going to take it during the summer from a community college. Here at my school we get 3 hour labatories tacked on with the Calc. classes, no way I'm doing that:blowup:
Calc 2 was my worst class. However, you should understand it because you will be using it the rest of the time (for engineers at least). Calc 3 = Cake, same for Differential Equations.
i made it to calc in my junior year of highschool, then didn't take any math as a senior.
When I took the math placement test for my community college, i ended up in intermediate algebra. Guess i shouldn't have skipped a year of math and forgotten everything.
AP Calc BC was the highest offered around my school.
AP Calc... offered in my highschool was only equivalent to Calc1 in College.
yeah, talking about BC, 4+ on both = cred for calc 1 & 2 at purdue (MA 165, 166 here). (AB is only equivalent to 1 semester of calc though.) I was able to go right into 261 (Calc III, multivariate calculus). And that is the end of the line for calculus for my major.
to the kid without a driver's license, my math e-penis is so big it could poke your eye out
and i have as many credits awarded to me as I have actually earned in 2 semesters.
Taking calc in high school can be a bad idea... for the very reasons you experienced. Its hard to apply calc in the high school environment. In college, you're learning a math/science/engineering major, and taking other classes that calc is directly applicable to.
FWIW, I only went as far as Pre-calc in high school... took all my calc at the college level. Certainly it was harder to learn in college than high school, but I wouldn't have been able to apply calc as well if I took it in high school.
AP classes are over-rated. Once you get to college, no one cares what you did in high school, or how long you spend in college.
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