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Math 150 or 154?

edited August 2008 in General
I didn't take Calculus in high school, so should I take math 150?
Are these two courses on the same level?

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  • S56
    edited July 2008
    How did you do in Math 12? You need atleast a B or else you should take Math 100.
  • edited July 2008
    I had a 85 in math 12
  • edited July 2008
    Take 154, and if you have trouble with the algebra any of the other 150 stuff, just go to the open tutorials. Take advantage of the help that the department offers, the TA's are there whether you use them or not. If you got a decent mark in math 12, you'll be fine.
  • edited July 2008
    Is 154 the Social Sciences/Biology version of Calculus?

    If so, you need like at least a B to pass that course.

    Normal Calculus, you only need a C- to pass.
  • edited July 2008
    Normal calculus is way harder and it's at 8:30 in the morning...half the class usually fails.
  • edited July 2008
    154 is the biology version .. I think
    and it's also at 8:30 in the morning lol

    Is 150 the "normal" calculus? Why would it be harder? because from the description it gives, it seems to have more review than 151 & 154
  • IVTIVT
    edited July 2008
    suck it up and take 151. They are all at 8:30
  • edited July 2008
    151 destroyed me. And MWF 8:30 is a pretty shitty time for calculus :(

    And I am taking it again. This time in burnaby. So I will have to wake up an extra 45 minutes earlier :(
  • edited July 2008
    lol wut the fudge?
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    edited July 2008
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    Are these two courses on the same level?
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  • edited August 2008
    Huh, math 150's new.

    Surprised the math department even bothered with something like this. Way too many of the math profs at SFU seem to act as though mathematics was a be-all and end-all in and of itself and have little appreciation for relating what they do to the physical significance of the calculations.

    Eigenstuff is a classic example. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, in and of themselves, seem like a very abstractly painful manipulation of matrices, when in practice, doing eigenstuff on physical systems yields useful results (particularly so in quantum mechanics. :) ).

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