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[i2amroy]

Calculus does not appear to be as fundamentally ungraspable as people make it out to be. I'm sure it gets harder (tensor calculus and all), but so far so good.

I don't know what level you're at, but at the start calculus is pretty nice. Nice enough that I didn't realise it was actually the thing everyone kept talking about as calculus until a fair while in
Awkward integrals are awkward, and multi-dimensional calculus is somewhat confusing, though that's something I've only done very recently, and thus hasn't quite clicked yet.

Personally Calculus is my favorite type of math (excluding all the annoying sequences and series stuff you usually see in Calculus II). It's really nice to go from problems that are crazy calculator problems in late algebra into ones that are simple enough to do in your head (heck, both Calc I and III for me didn't even let you use calculators in those classes!).

[Gentlefish]

I was 3 credits shy of fulltime this semester.

So I took badminton, Tai Chi Fan Style, and Beginning Archery for Hunters

I hope we're not -actually- hunting in that last one though D: I just want to practice on targets!

[Lord_lemonpie]

I made a map is ASCII!

Its big! And its a thing!

And its on the forums at a location!

If you find it, I will be happy again!

It looks very promising!

[BlitzDungeoneer]

No school tomorrow.
'Nuff said.

[Lord_lemonpie]

I just got sigged again

[Urist Imiknorris]

Calculus does not appear to be as fundamentally ungraspable as people make it out to be. I'm sure it gets harder (tensor calculus and all), but so far so good.

I don't know what level you're at, but at the start calculus is pretty nice. Nice enough that I didn't realise it was actually the thing everyone kept talking about as calculus until a fair while in
Awkward integrals are awkward, and multi-dimensional calculus is somewhat confusing, though that's something I've only done very recently, and thus hasn't quite clicked yet.

Personally Calculus is my favorite type of math (excluding all the annoying sequences and series stuff you usually see in Calculus II). It's really nice to go from problems that are crazy calculator problems in late algebra into ones that are simple enough to do in your head (heck, both Calc I and III for me didn't even let you use calculators in those classes!).

I managed an A- in Calc III without actually buying the book.

[Graknorke]

Huh, is the UK the only place in the world where the education system doesn't split up algebra, geometry, and calculus like that?

[Helgoland]

I was just wondering the same thing. At what age does one take these classes?

[Orange Wizard]

NZ doesn't split them up into separate classes until the last year of highschool, and even then it's just Maths With Calculus and Maths Something Statistics.
And even then, algebra, geometry, and calculus are all in the Calculus class, while the Statistics class can barely be called maths at all.

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I just got sigged again

Well, I guess it's my thing now...

[Dutchling]

In HS we just had Math A, B, C, and D.

Makes way more sense :V

[Orange Wizard]

It does. Our education system has been overhauled about a dozen times in the past couple of decades, and every time it seems like a competition of who in the Ministry can get the most retarded proposals out the door.

[Lord_lemonpie]

I have just been sigged again again

Today was a good day.

[sjm9876]

It does. Our education system has been overhauled about a dozen times in the past couple of decades, and every time it seems like a competition of who in the Ministry can get the most retarded proposals out the door.

Seems reminiscent of current affair in the UK. *cough*Gove*cough*

[i2amroy]

I was just wondering the same thing. At what age does one take these classes?

Where I'm at in the U.S. Calculus is usually a very late/advanced high school class or an early college class. Basically high school offers AP Calculus A & B (which if you pass the AP test can count for college credit in Calc I & II respectively) that the top math kids take. Even most top students graduate after AP Calc A with only a few being advanced enough to go on to Calc B (Arizona usually only has like 5-25 Calc B high school students taking the test each year). Early college then offers Calculus I, II, and III as things you would take as a freshman/sophomore in most fields that need it or later on in less mathy fields.

Basically the "best" math progression plan (as in you don't fail, need to retake things, or spend semesters doing nothing) around where I live in the U.S. goes like this:
X-grade math until 6-8th grade
Algebra - 8th
Geometry - 9th
Algebra II - 10th
College Algebra/Pre-Calculus - 11th (College algebra often counts for dual credit so you can walk into college having that done already if you need it)
AP Calc A / College Algebra / Pre-Calculus - 12th grade (Depending on what you've taken before)
Calculus I - Freshman 1st semester
Calculus II - Freshman 2nd semester (if needed)
Calculus III - Sophomore 1st semester (if needed)
Whatever "higher" math classes your college degree requires

It's pretty common for people to be "behind" by 1 semester, finishing 12th grade by taking college algebra or not taking math at all, not taking Calculus I until their first semester in college and there can sometimes be some interplay between the order you take Geometry and Algebra II in, but that's the basic order.

Edit: Oops, forgot Pre-Calc, updated

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

The only reason I'm in pre calc and planning on taking calc next year (in highschool)
Is because they fused Trig into it and I need trig for engineering...