Re: TI-M: math class

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Re: TI-M: math class


I would be more interested to hear about which AP classes you took were
most educationally beneficial to you.  Isn't that the reason we're in
school anyways?  Shouldn't we be seeking to gain a repertoire of knowledge
that accompanies us throughout our life's quest and is there when we wish
to utilize it, whether or not that time comes or not, and to give us the
foundation on which to build upon our own additions to our knowledge base?
Frankly I'm sick of hearing about AP classes and their relative "easy 5"
qualities.  I would much rather be talking about math.

So I ask you, what function of the TI calculator are we all interested in
but don't understand.  Maybe it would be fun to think about that together.

--
Andy Selle <aselle@ticalc.org>
   Programming and System Administration, Survey Editor, Accounts Manager
   the ticalc.org project - http://www.ticalc.org/


On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Daniel Bishop wrote:

> 
> I took 7 AP tests (and earned 36 hours of credit :)
> 
> >From easiest to hardest (and from 5 to 3):
> 1. Calculus BC
> 2. Macroeconomics
> 3. Statistics (make sure you bring a TI-83!)
> 4. Chemistry
> 5. Computer Science A (I passed it only becuase I write programs outside of 
> class and almost knew what I was doing.  Everyone else failed because our 
> teacher was incompetent.)
> 6. U.S. Government (memorize a lot a facts for part I, write BS for part II)
> 7. English Language (lots of difficult critical thinking questions, and they 
> expect you to write GOOD essays).
> 
> >From what I heard from other students Spanish, English Lit, and Physics C 
> are impossible.
> 
> Don't know about U.S. History: the test wasn't offered until my senior year 
> and I nobody in my grade had taken a U.S. history class in two years.  
> (They've now changed the order so that it's a juniors' class like all the 
> other schools.)
> 
> >From: JayEll64@aol.com
> >Reply-To: ti-math@lists.ticalc.org
> >To: ti-math@lists.ticalc.org
> >Subject: Re: TI-M: math class
> >Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 21:53:17 EDT
> >
> >
> >In a message dated 9/1/00 12:21:02 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
> >nickd@nickd.org
> >writes:
> >
> > > I know *several* Caltech students that have gotten dueling 1's on 
> >Physics
> > >  C. You have NO idea how impossibly hard that test is. B is an easy 
> >test. C
> > >  IS NOT.
> > >  IF YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH TAKE PHYSICS C. THIS IS COMING FROM SOMEONE 
> >WHO
> > >  POPPED NO-DOZ FOR TWO WEEKS RELIGIOUSLY STUDYING FOR IT AND DESPITE 
> >THIS
> > >  STILL GOT ONLY A 5/4.
> > >  Please trust me on that. It's not like a high school course; it's a 
> >high
> > >  school course on crack, PCP, topical steroids, and intravenous caffeine
> >ALL
> > >  AT ONCE.
> >
> >Well...I've got a friend who was taking calculus concurrently with Physics 
> >C
> >last year, the teacher avoided calculus as much as possible, the student
> >didn't study much at all, and pulled a 4 out of the test...
> >
> >JayEll
> >
> 
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