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There are stupid people everywhere, unfortunately. Also sadly except in unusual circumstances (e.g. they have a trust fund to live off), pre-calc teachers are n
by dboreham 3y ago
There are stupid people everywhere, unfortunately.
Also sadly except in unusual circumstances (e.g. they have a trust fund to live off), pre-calc teachers are not going to know much about mathematics.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoThose trig identities were tremendously useful throughout Calculus. Having them readily accessible in memory was very helpful, from what I recall. Why do you think this pre-calc teacher was “stupid”?
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- thoaw342 3y agoI never took "Pre-Calc" and got easy A's in the calculus series. In my opinion, college calculus is poorly named and instead should be named "Pre-Calc" and the real calculus course is then physics.
- oaktowner 3y agoThis gibes with my experience in college -- I did more calculus in my physics courses than in my calculus courses.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "real" calculus course. Physics applies calculus to solve certain problems. To claim one subject is more "real" than the other doesn't make sense to me.
- qball 3y agoOh, don't worry; university professors do this too. Most of those courses are not calculus, it's just advanced algebra, and we do those trying for success in them a disservice with the dishonesty.