Re: TI-M: math class
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Re: TI-M: math class
My generous School District (West Palm, FL) in addition to paying for AP
tests also pays for Dual erollment at a CC + books - I gained far more from
these, maybe a 3-hour night course once per week, instead of 5 hours a week
in an AP class.
Functions? Well, I've written BASIC for -every- calulator from "Buy Me, I'm
Cheap!" scrolling text on an 81 for sale at KMart to a spanish verb
translation thing for the 89, and I STILL can't figure out what
"PrintScreen" in TI-82 Basic is for...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Selle" <aselle@ticalc.org>
To: <ti-math@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 1:28 PM
Subject: 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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