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Alpha
Joined: 24 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject: Mathematically challenged |
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| One of the channels on Korean t.v teaches Calculus, among other subjects such as biological science (enegry transfer,) and beyond...I have taken one year of calculus while in college, and was wondering if I would be considered mathematically challenged here. Some of the problems that they were working on, I couldn't quite follow. Some of the problems could have been vector, differential equation, or even linear algebra. What is the standard knowledge of math for a college educated person in Korea? |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: Mathematically challenged |
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| One of the channels on Korean t.v teaches Calculus, among other subjects such as biological science (enegry transfer,) and beyond...I have taken one year of calculus while in college, and was wondering if I would be considered mathematically challenged here. Some of the problems that they were working on, I couldn't quite follow. Some of the problems could have been vector, differential equation, or even linear algebra. What is the standard knowledge of math for a college educated person in Korea? |
I was almost married to a woman who grew up here- she is now a chemistry doctor at Scripps- she said that all her American university level math courses were an "easy A". She was WWWWWWWWaaaaaaaay smarter then I will ever be! |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:30 am Post subject: |
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I was so scared when I had to take a math class at uni. I could never get passed the damn entrance exam for the credit course. My final semester I begged my way into the class.
It was one of the easiest classes I had to take at uni, and believe it or not I enjoyed it. I hated the algebra, but loved geometry, trig, and calc.
I think back home we have this perception that math is so difficult. Granted, it may be for some people, but they have it so much in our head that it is a very hard class. All it takes for you to learn it (the basics not the "Beautiful Mind: guy's math), is to buckle down and study. I was in the tart math class in highschool and at that time I was not a good student.  |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| Good question. At the high and junior high levels Korea has a good rep but on a individual basis (the average Korean I've solved problems with) they don't seem all that special. |
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Alpha
Joined: 24 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| I was almost married to a woman who grew up here- she is now a chemistry doctor at Scripps- she said that all her American university level math courses were an "easy A". She was WWWWWWWWaaaaaaaay smarter then I will ever be! |
Chemistry doctor at Scripps pretty much sums up how intelligent she is, and btw, it's part of UCSD, my alma mater. University of California is littered with intelligent, and motivated individuals, and at the undergraduate level, it seemed to me that everybody wanted to become physicians, lawyers, or some kind of doctors. It took a little time to get used to such students, considering that I have never really been around people like that before. At times I thought that some of the students would consider selling their mothers to get into medical, or law schools. At the graduate level, you are talking about the cream of the crop, and to work at a place like Scripps, well...I will just agree with you that she is probably extremely intelligent, and motivated.
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| It was one of the easiest classes I had to take at uni, and believe it or not I enjoyed it. I hated the algebra, but loved geometry, trig, and calc. |
I loved algebra when I took it in 8th grade, but hated trig, and calculus in college. I still don't know how I passed my second quarter calculus class. I think the final exam had five questions, and we had around three hours to finish it. All I remeber thinking after the I tured in the dreaded exam was, I am gonna have to retake the class. But somehow I passed it, and suffered one more quarter of it. It's good to know that I never have to take another math class. |
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