I took four years in high school so that I would be able to score high enough on the placement test when I got to college. When I took the test, I scored high enough to where I only have to take one math class and I just took the final for that class yesterday. No more math class for me. Ever.
I took 4 years of Math in HS (Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2 and Trigonometry). Then I went to College and I took Statistics. I took the Final last Monday and now I'm done. YES!! :D :D :D
I took 4 years of Math in HS (Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2 and Trigonometry). Then I went to College and I took Statistics. I took the Final last Monday and now I'm done. YES!! :D :D :D Dirijor2841
[QUOTE="Dirijor2841"]I took 4 years of Math in HS (Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2 and Trigonometry). Then I went to College and I took Statistics. I took the Final last Monday and now I'm done. YES!! :D :D :D X360PS3AMD05
I hate the hell out of math but i'm going for my 5th credit of math even tho only 4 are required because it looks good on college apps (or at least thats what they say). Calculus is kinda hard but once you understand it, it really becomes easy.
[QUOTE="Dirijor2841"]I took 4 years of Math in HS (Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2 and Trigonometry). Then I went to College and I took Statistics. I took the Final last Monday and now I'm done. YES!! :D :D :D X360PS3AMD05
Don't you still need Calculus?
There are a lot of majors (in my experiance) that don't require you to take calculus...at my Univeristy you can take Math 120 (Intro Calc) or you can take Intro Logic or Math 104 (super basic stuff that would be normally covered by a grade 10 or 11 highschool class)...for my major i needed Calculus and Calculus II (i also took Linear Algerbra, SOOOO easy)
I took six, though I think the core math courses were required every grade. The only optional one I took was calculus, which should probably be required anyway.
Trig was by far the most useless portion of my high school math courses, though. It has NEVER come up in the dozen post-secondary math classes I've taken.
We only had to take 3 years of math and 2 of science or vice versa, but I took both for all four years lol. In order I took Advanced Algebra, Geo, Pre-Calc, and AP Calc AB.
i took up to linear algebra and calculus courses in highschool which made my first year of university pretty easy because those were optional in highschool... they were really small classes :P
I took six, though I think the core math courses were required every grade. The only optional one I took was calculus, which should probably be required anyway.
Trig was by far the most useless portion of my high school math courses, though. It has NEVER come up in the dozen post-secondary math classes I've taken.
DJ_Lae
I agree that Calculus should be a required course. For majors that do require a math, if you haven't taken highschool calculus and try to do an Intro Calc class in Univeristy you are going to struggle. I didn't find Calc I to be that hard in University, but that is likely because i had seen a lot of the stuff beforehand, the course moves pretty quick.
We were required 3 years so I took Algebra, Geometry and Trig. Senior year I took business math, that was the most useful math class I ever took! They taught us how to balance checkbooks, minor accounting skills, playing the stock market, all things you can ACTUALLY use in real life. Never since I've started my 55,000 dollar a year job have I been required to find the "value of x" :D
i took up to linear algebra and calculus courses in highschool which made my first year of university pretty easy because those were optional in highschool... they were really small classes :P
now in university with a math and physics major
DividedByZero88
similar circumstances. this is my senior year and i am taking calc 3 and diff eq (each 1 semester, calc 3 comes right after calc BC AP). i also plan to major in physics and maybe math
We were required 3 years so I took Algebra, Geometry and Trig. Senior year I took business math, that was the most useful math class I ever took! They taught us how to balance checkbooks, minor accounting skills, playing the stock market, all things you can ACTUALLY use in real life. Never since I've started my 55,000 dollar a year job have I been required to find the "value of x" :DMarineJcksn
Yeah, I took a class like that called Personal Finance the first quarter of this year. Too bad I'll probably forget how to do all of that stuff by the time I graduate.
4 years. I only wanted to do 3, but my guidance counselor pretty much insisted that I contnue it. I'm glad I did, since I'm finding College Prep Math (basically an introducory course onCalculus) to be very easy.
It's so unfortunate that so many people hate math. I blame bad teachers for that. But as for the topic at hand, I took math all through my high school career. Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus. Then now in college, I've taken a ton of math courses. I love it, as long as it's not over my head.
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