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Year 1 university maths for engineering: 

First lecture - How to do basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra (BIDMAS)

 

Ummmm...did I walk into a primary (aka elementary for most) school maths class? No seriously, more or less all of the items were taught in primary and middle school (again, no middle school here as middle and high are integrated but the years do match up with middle)... 

  1. TacoSenpai

    TacoSenpai

    ....Yes.

  2. Mr.Meerkat

    Mr.Meerkat

    @LordOTaco Good, I thought I was going crazy with a rather annoying voice telling me how a+b = b+a...

  3. DildorTheDecent

    DildorTheDecent

    You might appreciate the refresher down the line though.

     

    Especially when your up to your nipples in course work.

  4. Mr.Meerkat

    Mr.Meerkat

    @DildorTheDecent True, to be fair, I did advanced higher maths in my last year of high school, which is equivalent to year one university and is on the same level on the SCQF (Scottish system for level of education) soooooooo...I guess it really is just a revision course for me? I mean I have learned at least 80% of it already so what can I say eh? 

  5. Mr.Meerkat

    Mr.Meerkat

    @VegetableStu Don't think so? Apart from some who had only did as-level/higher-level maths or took a gap year that took some notes on the harder stuff, everyone was just kinda sitting there doing absolutely nothing.

  6. Jtalk4456

    Jtalk4456

    most classes with math in it do recaps like this because people forget math when they get out of the class

  7. Mr.Meerkat

    Mr.Meerkat

    @Jtalk4456 I understand that but isn't this recap a little too...easy? I mean the algebra and stuff is fine but addition and subtraction? There must be something seriously wrong if you don't remember how to do addition and subtraction and you're doing engineering... 

  8. DildorTheDecent

    DildorTheDecent

    You're in Scotland tho.

     

    Scots aren't the sharpest tools in the shed kek.

  9. TacoSenpai

    TacoSenpai

    lesson 3 time travel physics

  10. Mr.Meerkat

    Mr.Meerkat

    @CUDAcores89 ...am I allowed to say boringggggggggg? That's stuff I did two or three years ago, unless it involves logs n shizzle. 

  11. Mr.Meerkat

    Mr.Meerkat

    @CUDAcores89 Do note that I don't live in America so our education system is different. On that note, yes, I have learned differential equations, matrices, linear algebra and the vast majority of the content (according to this website at least) in calculus 2 plus about 70% of calculus 3 (if not more).

     

    Here in Scotland, if you do advanced highers (6th year, last year of high school, if you don't go to uni after 5th year), as long as what you take subjects related to your course and do actually bother to learn the stuff, generally, before you have even started university, you would have already learned about 80% of first year hence they give you an option to skip to second year if your grades for your advanced highers are good enough ;). 

     

    Edit: Oh, looking at calculus 4, I've done the complex parts as well. 

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