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This comment surprised me, as I have a BS in math and Laplace transforms were not something I was required to learn for the degree (although I had the option to
by v64 7y ago
This comment surprised me, as I have a BS in math and Laplace transforms were not something I was required to learn for the degree (although I had the option to take courses as electives that covered them). My university offers a math degree intended for those who want to go into teaching that doesn't get any hairier than Number Theory for required courses.
- barry-cotter 7y agoYour school had a special fake Math degree for aspirant teachers? What was it called, Math for Educators? Was there any indication on the transcript or diploma that it wasn’t a real Math degree?
- jccalhoun 7y agoYes my college had a math for educators degree. https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/math/academic-programs/major-mathematics-teaching https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/math/ac... I was a math education minor and I had to take 9 classes (3 credit hours each) including 2 on teaching math. It didn't seem very much like a "fake math degree" to me.
- jointpdf 7y agoDamn, what a toxic and misguided comment. I have a MS in Applied Mathematics and there are many areas of math (especially “pure” math) that I’ve never touched. Same goes for my professors. The field is so vast and so deep that it’s impossible to learn even a negligible portion of it (unless you’re immortal). Are our degrees fake? It makes perfect sense that prospective educators would specialize in different areas of math than those with a pure math (or engineering, or physics, or statistics, etc) degree.
- alfiedotwtf 7y agoI took it as an elective that was offered to Electrical Engineering. I'm sad my uni didn't have Number Theory (at least none available to me) :(