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If your child is interested in engineering, and won't be able to go to a private school, it is best to have Calc I and II done before they go to college. At st
by mattgrice 3y ago
If your child is interested in engineering, and won't be able to go to a private school, it is best to have Calc I and II done before they go to college. At state schools, Calc is typically a weed-out class with huge lectures and they want a certain percentage of students to not be successful because these classes serve as a gating function to the engineering school. Combined with other freshman semester distractions and adjustment it's a good idea to have it out of the way.
Other than that I'd say the best acceleration is enrichment. Teach stuff like proofs, "how to solve it" by Polya, gain intuition about linear algebra and complex numbers. Martin Gardner and AK Dewdney articles in old Scientific American magazines.
- tzs 3y ago> Martin Gardner and AK Dewdney articles in old Scientific American magazines All of Gardner's Scientific American columns are conveniently available on CD-ROM for under $40 [1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0883855453 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0883855453
- epups 3y agoThat's a great deal. Unfortunately CD ROMs have not been convenient for like a decade...
- tzs 3y agoHere it is as ebooks [1]. $99 ($74.25 for MAA and AMS members). On sale for $59.40. I think the sale price is just for MAA and ASM members). [1] https://bookstore.ams.org/gardner-set/ https://bookstore.ams.org/gardner-set/