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re: Why is calculus so difficult?

Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:00 pm to
Posted by Sun God
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Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:00 pm to
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Took it sophomore year of high school.

Took longer than I thought it would for this post to show up
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
114111 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:00 pm to
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For me, it was the Chinese professor


You couldn't use the textbook to teach yourself?
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:00 pm to
Calc 3 was borderline fun. It was calc 1 but you do it 3x
Posted by JudgeHolden
Gila River
Member since Jan 2008
18566 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:00 pm to
I think it is integral that you derive that on your own. There is a limit to what we can help you with.
Posted by BlackCoffeeKid
Member since Mar 2016
11752 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:02 pm to
Once took a CM class, somebody in my group project looked at me like I was Einstein when I told him that I was in Calc 3.

He didn't realized that Calc 2, 3, etc. were real classes
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:05 pm to
I found it to be the easiest if the advanced math classes I took.


Algebra III can go frick itself.
Posted by Schmelly
Member since Jan 2014
14524 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:05 pm to
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Calc 1 and 3 were easy. Calc 2 can suck a moose cock


This right here
Posted by EveryoneGetsATrophy
Member since Nov 2017
2907 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:06 pm to
If it was supposed to be easy, they would teach it in 3rd grade instead of multiplication and division.
Posted by OWLFAN86
The OT has made me richer
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Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:07 pm to
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OweO




here ya go

Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
8200 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:07 pm to
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Took longer than I thought it would for this post to show up


Wasn’t anything special. In middle school they offered a test, and then gave parents the option to put their kids in algebra in 7th grade. They bumped up like a third of the students.
Posted by sta4ever
The Pit
Member since Aug 2014
15465 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:07 pm to
Just go to a community college and get a operator degree baw. More money and less stressful than that shite
Posted by 50_Tiger
Dallas TX
Member since Jan 2016
40299 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:07 pm to
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Is it the concepts themselves? Are limits, derivatives and integrals inherently challenging? Is it difficult because of gaps in precursor knowledge like exponents and logarithms?


Rofl if you think that's bad dont take Signals and Systems where you express everything in a Series and/or then use transformations to express things in the time or frequency domain.
Posted by 3morereps
The Gym
Member since Jun 2015
6735 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:08 pm to
8th derivatives are a bitch
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
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Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:18 pm to
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
71616 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:23 pm to
It's easier than trig or algebra.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
27920 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:25 pm to
Since most math teachers are shitty at explaining the concepts it makes it seem hard. If you get a good one it is not that hard. Check out Khan Academy....he does a good job.
Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
Member since Jun 2018
29290 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:31 pm to
Only fricking idiots find calculus to be difficult. Calculus was one of the easiest classes I ever took, in high school and college. Not hard whatsoever.
This post was edited on 10/7/20 at 8:34 pm
Posted by Demshoes
Up in here
Member since Aug 2015
10233 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:31 pm to
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Why is algebra so difficult?
Posted by subMOA
Komatipoort
Member since Jan 2010
1731 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:32 pm to
For all the cats saying its not hard and you’re dumb- they are full of SHITE!

I am a successful business owner, and worked at some pretty decent executive levels in the companies I worked for before I owned my own.

When I was a practicing engineer- I was pretty damn good, and many people said I might be the best pure structural guy they worked with.

Calculus kicked my arse. Period.

My wife is a PhD Chem E and might be the smartest person I have ever met- she is the ONLY person I have ever met that said calculus was fun. Consider that for a sec.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81806 posts
Posted on 10/7/20 at 8:33 pm to
Sung Woo Su? I could barely understand him in differential equations.
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