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To: RightWhale

We actually still teach a fairly 'traditional' calculus at our shop: mostly algebraic. Too much graphics/intuition at the expense of algebra skills leaves students underprepared for differential equations and the like.


146 posted on 08/23/2004 4:49:56 PM PDT by megatherium
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To: megatherium

Right. Of course I was speaking of senior and graduate level, real variables, complex variables. Freshmen can be memorizing some trig while they are there, sin pi/2, double angle formulas, it makes things a lot easier and quicker later.


148 posted on 08/23/2004 5:07:22 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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