<p>Calculus should be worth like 7 credits because it takes a ****load of time and is the worst thing in the world. I could read 70 novels in the time it took me to get through one calculus book (poorly, I might add). If you read a book a week in a L33T English class, that’s like 12 books a semester, what with breaks and all. But one calculus book is worth 70 normal books. If 12 books are worth three (3) credits, then 70 “books” are worth 3 x 5.833333333= 17.5 credits. So seven (7) should suffice as a compromise IMHO, FWIW.</p>
<p>You’re wrong. No one reads the entire calculus textbook. Obviously you suck at math and don’t know how to study it. All you need is probably 1-3 sentences on each page. Most of the pages contain exercises/practice problems which you don’t have to read.</p>
<p>^disagree. my calc book only only had half a sheet of problems for every 5-10 pages (or every section).
we also only went through half the 700 page book in Calc I. Calc II uses a different book… but we COULD use our calc book for calc II (I think…)</p>
<p>I disagree with the OP, too. get over it. it’s just a math class.</p>
<p>Sorry, OP, but your argument and reasoning are very poor (however, I’m sure you don’t suck at math… that’s way too harsh). There is a large difference between reading a book for English and for math that the page count does not cover. </p>
<p>Also your argument is based on the fact that you clearly like literature classes more than math classes. For me it’d be the exact opposite… I could say that it takes so much longer to understand the different aspects of a novel and that the subjective analysis would basically make it impossible to obtain the correct answer. Then it would seem like English should be worth (like) 7 credits, but then I’d be equally wrong.</p>
<p>No, I hate all classes equally.</p>
<p>And I wasn’t talking about ‘reading’ per se. I meant understanding the each chapter inside and out.</p>
<p>Maybe Calculus should remain 3 or 4 credits, and your other classes should be brought down to 1 because they’re far too easy to be taken seriously.</p>
<p>Stop whining, calc isn’t that bad. Go get a tutor or something if you’re struggling with it that much.</p>
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<p>That would work too. I’m okay with whatever.</p>
<p>I’m not whining. I’m just stating rock-solid facts.</p>
<p>calculus is not very diffficult.
90% theory
10% computation (euler’s method and when you have to evaluate integrals without a calculator)</p>
<p>I’ve made it my part-time job to avoid ever having to take a calculus class.</p>
<p>Then what should courses like tensor theory be? 20 credits?</p>
<p>Everything at my school is 3 credits (1 semester) or 6 credits (full year) or sometimes 1.5 credits (only 1 class per week for 1 semester), regardless of the work involved. Some courses have 3 hours of lecture + 3 hour lab + 1 hour seminar per week that are still only 3 credits.</p>
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My school uses Stewart’s Calculus book which has about 3-5 pages worth of problems per section. I only read about 1-3 sentences in each section (just the main theorems), and I listen in class.</p>
<p>OP - In an english class, you can’t just listen in class without reading the entire novel. I know in my english classes, the teacher always asks me questions about the reading…which I could never answer (even if I tried to read the book).</p>
<p>I agree with lil_killer. In my high school Calculus courses, I never opened the book; the teachers’ explanations was good enough, and this is coming from a guy who prefers reading novels.</p>
<p>calc is the easiest course in the world</p>
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<p>I had to teach myself everything out of the book solo since I don’t speak Indian.</p>
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Indian is a language?!</p>
<p>You’re a language.</p>
<p>^you’re a hick.</p>
<p>you will be happy you studied math in a few years when the paycheques start coming in and your english major buddies still work at barnes and noble</p>
<p>How did you know I was a hick? :O</p>
<p>wth can you do with a math degree anyway? Become the first high school math teacher to EVER have a math degree?</p>
<p>Are you done with calculus yet?</p>