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| hot-girl |
 Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 9:34 pm |
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calculus(integration, differentiation) is contained in the sat exam range??
right??
sat exam seems to think real life-math problem. |
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| M.Sugure |
| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 10:27 pm |
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Umm no. Unless you mean the Mathematics subject exam.
If not , then perhaps a perusal of the verbal portion of the SAT general
exam is in order?
"hot-girl" <math2050@yahoo.co.kr> wrote in message
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Quote: calculus(integration, differentiation) is contained in the sat exam
range??
right??
sat exam seems to think real life-math problem.
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| hot-girl |
| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:21 pm |
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i think........
um.....USA high school math curriculum does not contain intergration,
differentiation??
when students learn integration,differentiation?? |
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| Mike Kent |
| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 3:33 am |
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:21:15 +0900, hot-girl wrote:
Quote: i think........
um.....USA high school math curriculum does not contain intergration,
differentiation??
In US secondary schools, a course in the calculus is frequently
available, rarely required.
Quote: when students learn integration,differentiation??
Some in secondary school, some during their university years,
many (most?) not at all. It is entirely possible to get an AB
in non-technical / non-quantitative fields while knowing no
mathematics beyond, roughly, elementary plane geometry, and
algebra to the point of solving simultaneous linear equations
and quadratic equations. |
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| The Ghost In The Machine |
| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:00 pm |
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In sci.math, hot-girl
<math2050@yahoo.co.kr>
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on Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:21:15 +0900
<bsgd03$l0s$1@news.hananet.net>:
Quote: i think........
um.....USA high school math curriculum does not contain intergration,
differentiation??
when students learn integration,differentiation??
Ah, youth; back in the late 70's the high school math
curriculum (at least, in my area of the US) did not require
calculus. I got lucky, though, and was able to take it
in my senior year using resources from a local college.
The book was a fairly fat red one with a drawing of a
lamp -- and of course now I can't find it.
I don't remember when I first learned about actual
integrals, though, although one can treat problems such as
integral(1 to 5) (x^3 / 11) dx
as simple formal exercises in algebraic manipulation
(the result is (5^4 - 1) / 44). It's not clear to me
whether that route is better than laying the groundwork
as to what precisely a Riemannian integral is, and I've
confused my personal history further by taking a course on
Lebesgue integration, which uses a completely different
theory to compute the above answer -- a theory which
I've now forgotten most of the particulars of, although I
still have to book (Rudin's _Real and Complex Analysis_,
second edition).
I am not hopeful that the schools have gotten much better
in the meantime, and further complications now include
dangerous weapons such as 9mm semiautomatics being
smuggled in to attempt to kill a teacher one doesn't like.
Having to worry about such issues detracts from actual
learning, unfortunately; one can't learn calculus while
cowering under a desk. :-)
--
#191, ewill3@earthlink.net
It's still legal to go .sigless. |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:24 am |
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In article <lq5ub1-poh.ln1@lexi2.athghost7038suus.net>,
The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net> wrote:
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Quote: Having to worry about such issues detracts from actual
learning, unfortunately; one can't learn calculus while
cowering under a desk. 
Actually, that's exactly what I would do. 1. Takes my mind
off stuff I have no control over and 2. What else are you
going to do--count your navel?
I always open a math book on days when the world is against me
(remember those days when everything goes wrong?). Solving
a problem gives me a small victory which didn't take much time
and restored my self-confidence.
Doing math is a series of small successes used to build a large house
of knowledge. I never understood how people could ever dislike it.
/BAH
Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail. |
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| Elisabeth E. Korelines |
| Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 6:06 am |
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jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote in message news:<3fed98dd$0$4752$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>...
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Doing math is a series of small successes used to build a large house
of knowledge. I never understood how people could ever dislike it.
Presumably they never experienced one of those successes, and feel
that the large house of knowledge has long been built and they have to
tread carefully so as not to stir the ghosts in the dusty corners. |
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