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Old 08-19-2005, 09:59 PM   #10833
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Originally posted by RedCeli
I took the Math 11 and 12 equivalents at the college and when I got into Math 140 (calculus), I was at the top of the class, and all the people who came straight from high school math were having serious trouble.
Same. I did the math 12 upgrade and then on to math 114, and it was like night and day who came from 060/061 and who came from high school math. One time the prof ended up with some divide by 0 and made some comment like "... and since we can't do that ..." and one of the straight-from-high-school kids goes "why not?" He was serious too. 1st year calculus and he's never encountered divide by 0 before... unbelievable.
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