Math 1B or Math H1B?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
1

<p>What’s the basic difference between Math 1B and Math H1B?</p>

2

<p>Bummmp? This is kinda urgent since I have my telebears appointment in 15. :/</p>

3

<p>Only if you have guts and willing to spend extra time for this class (e.g. sacrifice studying time for other classes b/c you love math that much)</p>

4

<p>But what’s the difference in the courses of the two?</p>

5

<p>H1B is composed of folks who think like you, or who are even ahead of you. More difficult and comprehensive test questions, and probably stiffer competition.</p>

6

<p>Smaller class, more theory and proofs, and harder problems would be the expectation for the honors course.</p>

<p>From the math department:</p>

<p>[Honors</a> Courses - UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics](<a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/courses_honors.html]Honors”>http://math.berkeley.edu/courses_honors.html)</p>

7

<p>I see, thanks for the heads up! So the material’s the same, it’s just the peer difference.</p>

8

<p>and the material is different…more theory</p>

9

<p>The textbook used at UC Berkeley, as well as a lot of other UCs and CSUs, for the three semester Calculus sequence for Math, Physical Science and Engineering majors is “Calculus, Early Transcendentals” 6th edition by James Stewart. It is a very long and comprehensive text that has numerous problems after each section of a chapter as well as at the end of each chapter itself. The problems range from fairly straightforward through medium difficulty and some that are extremely challenging. I would imagine in 1B most of the problems assigned would fall in the straightforward to medium difficulty range while in H1B you would get a lot more of the very difficult ones.</p>

<p>In 1A and 1B offered by the UC Berkeley Extension, which my son is taking online over the summer, they allow you to take a version of the course tailored to either the 6th edition that was published in 2008 or the 7th edition that the publisher, seeking to make as much money as they can from students, put out in 2011.</p>

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<p>I downloaded its pdf and I confess it was unnervingly painful to find one.
Also I couldn’t find a reason why the publisher would want to take out separate editions, since I hardly found anything different than the older versions of the text, other than what Lemaitre just mentioned.
Sometimes I just get the feeling I’m going to a school which is rubbing it’s hands with glee at the very sight of my fat enrollment fee deposit. :(</p>