Re:Ask HN: Where did you top out in math classes?
by jfarmer on Monday June 02, 2008 @01:44PM
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As with most subjects there are levels of understanding.
One level is the ability to understand what other people are saying or doing. Another is the ability to do it yourself.
Once you get to higher level classes, at least where I went to school, the reading is relatively light but the work is relatively hard.
I don't think most people had trouble understanding the proofs -- they had trouble applying the lessons in a novel way to exercises and problems they'd never seen before.
One level is the ability to understand what other people are saying or doing. Another is the ability to do it yourself.
Once you get to higher level classes, at least where I went to school, the reading is relatively light but the work is relatively hard.
I don't think most people had trouble understanding the proofs -- they had trouble applying the lessons in a novel way to exercises and problems they'd never seen before.