Ha, yes, 70k is great if you can get it. I'm actually waiting on a response from the technical. I don't think I'll move forward. Answered 11/17 and really annoyed by two probability questions I recognized but couldn't pin down a method for.
I came into math a year ago. From a humanities family, both parents when to seminary. It's weird how much upbringing can factor into talents. I grew up with 12 hour days of reading- no prompting, just wondered into my parents library and picked stuff up. I can remember exact arguments from essay's I wrote years ago, I can sit down for an exam and write all my essays using sources I read long before this class and not use a single related book in the course. But math... I haven't got that maturity. I did maybe 4 weeks of math a year. One before each semester's midterm and final. Took last year and studied abroad at St. Andrews. They're doing it right, no gen-ed classes, just math from year one. Adjustment was a punch in the gut. They had 1.5 courses worth of proofs in linear mathematics, I had covered most of the prior topics but proved nothing; jumping into the second course I had to cover all that material at once. But I walked out with a 2.1 mark, and now I've spent enough time staring at equations to form that habit and base. I'm onto learning some stuff that's actually use-full in the real world now (read: numerical implementations). Really wish I had started sooner, my parents tried kumon once. But I just didn't see any point to it when I could spend all day exploring a different beautiful written world.
Math academy......I'm not entirely convinced yet (we were part of the Kumon homeschool crew, switched to singapore. I don't love it), but I'm intrigued....
Ha, yes, 70k is great if you can get it. I'm actually waiting on a response from the technical. I don't think I'll move forward. Answered 11/17 and really annoyed by two probability questions I recognized but couldn't pin down a method for.
I came into math a year ago. From a humanities family, both parents when to seminary. It's weird how much upbringing can factor into talents. I grew up with 12 hour days of reading- no prompting, just wondered into my parents library and picked stuff up. I can remember exact arguments from essay's I wrote years ago, I can sit down for an exam and write all my essays using sources I read long before this class and not use a single related book in the course. But math... I haven't got that maturity. I did maybe 4 weeks of math a year. One before each semester's midterm and final. Took last year and studied abroad at St. Andrews. They're doing it right, no gen-ed classes, just math from year one. Adjustment was a punch in the gut. They had 1.5 courses worth of proofs in linear mathematics, I had covered most of the prior topics but proved nothing; jumping into the second course I had to cover all that material at once. But I walked out with a 2.1 mark, and now I've spent enough time staring at equations to form that habit and base. I'm onto learning some stuff that's actually use-full in the real world now (read: numerical implementations). Really wish I had started sooner, my parents tried kumon once. But I just didn't see any point to it when I could spend all day exploring a different beautiful written world.
Math academy......I'm not entirely convinced yet (we were part of the Kumon homeschool crew, switched to singapore. I don't love it), but I'm intrigued....