Current Events > What's the highest level math class you ever got up to?

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Prestoff posted...

Funny enough, no. I have my CPA license. The only thing they care about is having over 150 units and taking the core accounting classes. Business Calc was the last math course I had to take in CC to transfer over to a university. And all Business Calc was is just Calculus with word problems.

yeah but you must have a bachelors accounting degree? Many have master's iirc. pretty sure you don't need that for like h and r block

Either Business Statistics or Physics 2 with Applied Calculus.

GranTurismo posted...

yeah but you must have a bachelors accounting degree? Many have master's iirc. pretty sure you don't need that for like h and r block

Ugh yeah, you can't get a CPA license without a degree lol. I never got a masters, but maybe Calc 2 is required for it?

NightMarishPie posted...

Differential equations/linear algebra or calc 3. Not sure which is considered "higher" or "harder."

imo Differential equations (we called it calc 4) was harder than Calc 3. Honestly Calc 3 was easy as shit cuz it's literally just calc 1 again but in 3D or with multivariables or partial derivatives. Learning calc 2 and 4 sucked

Calc 5 > 4 > 2 > 3 > 1 in terms of difficulty

I actually somewhat enjoyed Calc 1.
Calc 2 was awful and killed any desire to continue with any math beyond that point.

I still had to take a couple math classes after that for business class stuff. But they were much easier than calculus! Stuff like intro statistics and intro to operations management (operations management is secretly a math major if you take the upper level classes)

GranTurismo posted...

oh what kind of work do you do now? you don't like it? What is bist, though? I have heard that comp sci major is much more difficult than stuff like mechanical engineering. A lot of like debugging and some useless stuff in the comp sci curriculum that mechanical does not have

Oh sorry, BSIT is Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

What I do currently is clerical work for the state of California. I don't mind the work, as it's been a good learning experience. But I'm at the salary cap for the position, so I need to take a new position if I want to make more money. Doing IT work is the path I chose to promote through.

Calculus and hugely regretted it. Just like trigonometry despite how hard I tried I never scored higher then a D on anything material or test. Ever. It just caused me more suffering then accomplishment in the end.

NoxObscuras posted...

Oh sorry, BSIT is Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

What I do currently is clerical work for the state of California. I don't mind the work, as it's been a good learning experience. But I'm at the salary cap for the position, so I need to take a new position if I want to make more money. Doing IT work is the path I chose to promote through.

Oh I have a cousin who works in like California dmv or something. Does Calif req. A degree for the stuff?

No clue. After a bit there isn't exactly a clear "this is the furthest." I guess Linear Algebra?

Partial differential equations of 2nd order.

Not sure.
I was doing chemistry problems in college that took up a whole page

Algebra 2

Trigonometry. Kept withdrawing and people in my major kept complaining about the high math and science requirements.

Ultima_Fury posted...

Trigonometry. Kept withdrawing and people in my major kept complaining about the high math and science requirements.

What was this major? Yeah like notorious weeder courses, not really used much at your job but mostly used to weed people out

GranTurismo posted...

What was this major? Yeah like notorious weeder courses, not really used much at your job but mostly used to weed people out

Aviation (Professional Pilot). The trigonometry and college physics isnt really needed. The requirements was lowered to college algebra and basic physics. The E6B flight computer takes care of all the trigonometry for you.

Abstract algebra

First half of trig. Before smart phones existed, I didnt want to bother my parents to buy me a calculator and couldnt keep up in class. Also, fuck triangles.

Ultima_Fury posted...

Aviation (Professional Pilot). The trigonometry and college physics isnt really needed. The requirements was lowered to college algebra and basic physics. The E6B flight computer takes care of all the trigonometry for you.

Oh you're an airline pilot? It takes like as much time , education...etc....as a dr. ?

Maxwell's equations in integral and differential form with applications to static and dynamic fields. Uniform plane waves in free space and material media. Boundary conditions; simple transmission line theory; parallel plate and rectangular waveguides; simple radiating systems.

Linear algebra and differential equations. Honestly found calc 2 more difficult, got an A on the former and a C on the later. Absolutely nothing was more difficult for me math wise.

As far as I could tell the only variable for what made a math class hard was how much the professor wanted to fuck with you on the exam questions

Foundations of Mathematics, Calc III and Advanced Differentials. Nothing had ever made less sense in life than Foundations, so I promptly switched majors.

Whatever that very first one they was required in college was

Had to redo high school level math to enter college, but then became a solid B student in all my subsequent classes.

Luckily my degree was graphic design and rich media, didnt need to many math classes. Pretty sure my last was Technical math. Basically between algebra 2 and geometry.

Multivectoral differential equations

royic posted...

As far as I could tell the only variable for what made a math class hard was how much the professor wanted to fuck with you on the exam questions

Have heard this said a lot. That how good your prof is is a huge factor. That may say a lot about how great or relevant the subject matter is. If it wasn't why would how great your prof was matter so much?

Linear Algebra. Matrices confused the hell out of me.

Last time I felt confident in math was Calc AB (thats what it was called for me but I guess that equates to Calculus 1). Calculus BC/2 got confusing for me mainly because I slacked off and didnt do homework or attend every class. I think it involves vectors?

I shouldve failed Linear Algebra but my professor was nice.

Calculus 1

I took business math in college multiple times but not sure what level it was at.

I barely made it past pre-algebra in high school.

I don't know how to read formulas, but I've been doing basic algebra before I knew that was the word for it, so I assume somewhere around grade 6?

Apparently pre-algebra is highschool, so fuck if I know, lmao.

Calc for econ and econometrics

GranTurismo posted...

Oh you're an airline pilot? It takes like as much time , education...etc....as a dr. ?

Not exactly. I took a desk job to gain experience and never left. I should fly for money, but there's so many chuds and blowhards as pilots. I wouldn't want to be next to them.

You can go down to a local flight school at the airport and learn the same exact shit I learned in college. You don't need to be good at math and physics. Most computations are pretty basic and modern avionics and iPad apps can do all the complicated stuff for you.

Ultima_Fury posted...

Not exactly. I took a desk job to gain experience and never left. I should fly for money, but there's so many chuds and blowhards as pilots. I wouldn't want to be next to them.

You can go down to a local flight school at the airport and learn the same exact shit I learned in college. You don't need to be good at math and physics. Most computations are pretty basic and modern avionics and iPad apps can do all the complicated stuff for you.

yeah doesn't it take like 10 yrs to become an airline pilot? kinda like doctor a person could prob learn it in much less time but it is the law.

GranTurismo posted...

yeah doesn't it take like 10 yrs to become an airline pilot? kinda like doctor a person could prob learn it in much less time but it is the law.

Nope. It's all by hours, not years experience. You can go from zero hours to Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor in less than a year in fast track programs. Then you just teach or do small charter jobs until you hit 1,500 hours (less if you go through college programs). Then you can go onto the regional airlines.

Passed? Calc 1

Went to class for? Discrete

Ultima_Fury posted...

Nope. It's all by hours, not years experience. You can go from zero hours to Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor in less than a year in fast track programs. Then you just teach or do small charter jobs until you hit 1,500 hours (less if you go through college programs). Then you can go onto the regional airlines.

how long does 1500 hrs usually take? many pilots are former military cause they get that 1500 hrs already....etc...?

Pure math, Calculus.

Applied math, an advanced statistics / statistical software program in grad school. I didnt need to know how to do all the math, or prove anything, but needed to be comfortable with applied math concepts and what they did/when to use them/etc

Calc 3. I dropped in my 2nd year of college, which never sat right with me (it was purely due to poor work ethic causing me to miss way too many classes, and I could no longer rely on what I would say are above-average skills at picking up math), so I redid it in my 4th year, even though I had no real good reason to other than my pride. Ended up getting an A in it (this was during the spring semester of 2020, so Covid year).

Unfortunately, I knew that was my limit. I am really good with the idea of mathematical concepts in the realm of pure math, but have never been able to grasp physics, which math starts to blend with at its higher levels in many ways. Was a little depressing to feel like the dumb kid in the math class.

Algebra 2

Smallville posted...

how long does 1500 hrs usually take? many pilots are former military cause they get that 1500 hrs already....etc...?

If you're dedicated, you can get it in less than 2 years. Military pilots are commissioned officers and have to serve a minimum of 10 years. They'll have thousands of hours by the time they get out. I think they just need to take an FAA equivalency exam, submit paperwork, and they get their FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate.

Ultima_Fury posted...

If you're dedicated, you can get it in less than 2 years. Military pilots are commissioned officers and have to serve a minimum of 10 years. They'll have thousands of hours by the time they get out. I think they just need to take an FAA equivalency exam, submit paperwork, and they get their FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate.

yeah but what percent of airline pilots are former military ? isn't the percentage very high?

Diff eq

Smallville posted...

yeah but what percent of airline pilots are former military ? isn't the percentage very high?

Not as much as back then, when schedules and routes were regulated. Now there an ever growing demand and the military cannot provide all the airline pilots. Especially with military now using drones instead of manned aircraft. Competition is very high getting the coveted fighter pilot jobs, but you're still lucky to fly cargo or tanker aircraft.

Airlines are starting to make their own flight academies now. Where you pay a discounted rate for flight training, but you have to work for the airline upon graduation.

yeah isn't avg airline pilot pay going down?

Took trig, dropped it since I had no reason to be in there and hated math, so Algebra II.

Pre-calc for high school, statistics for college.

Smallville posted...

yeah isn't avg airline pilot pay going down?

No, it keeps going up due to the large pilot shortage. Especially due to resurgence of travel from COVID lockdowns. Lots of older pilots took early retirement packages when the pandemic hit. So when that happened, they have absolutely no incentive to rejoin the airlines at the bottom of the seniority list. Everything is seniority based.

Regional pilot pay is so much better than it was, say 15 years ago. First year first officers (co-pilot) made near minimum wage. Now pay is much, MUCH better and many regional airlines offer large sign-on bonuses.

Sorta outdated video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cognzTud3Wg

boxoto posted...

probably algebra 2, I think.

.this and geometry.

Math was my weak point in school I'd ace history social study and science classes make bs in English. Cs in math.

Is linear algebra counts? I failed it tho.
It killed my interest on math.

I took Differential Equation too but I don't remember being frustrated by it.

I have no idea. It's different here in Canada. I know that the most recent math class I did was IT mathmatics, which focused on Binary, Octal, Hex and ratios.