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Old 06-12-2009, 02:27 AM   #11
mathboy98
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I would, however, recommend if you can have contact with the same teacher twice, to do it. Especially when it's a question of taking calculus or not -- taking it is just a much wiser choice, but for very, very few exceptions.

Someone who really likes you and sees you working with more complex material tends to benefit from the experience to say more about your thinking process. For instance, someone I know was doing stuff like himself fiddling with stuff like the Borsuk Ulam (about continuous maps and antipodal points on circular things) Theorem in calculus class. Very enthusiastic guy and was at a level of reasoning far above what his class covered, and that was evident to every teacher who had him for math.

Your teacher may like you, but the more you give the teacher to say, the better.
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