jc6chan wrote:
zeldapsychology wrote:
The only thing I understood was Matrixs!! !!
I learned matrices in high school but ya, thats the simplest thing in lin. alg. I was shocked in first year university at how hard lin alg is.
I have a linear algebra exam I should be studying for, so I hear you. What I hear from other students is the course, as taught last semester, was fairly simple - so I didn't expect much. But what we got was the full-blown abstract linear algebra, where not only was every problem a proof, but the proofs were typically not very, well, linear.
"College Algebra" - that I can't speak much about. I imagine that it's like Algebra 2 in high school, but at a much higher pace. I've seen a lot of lower-division college math courses where the professor doesn't give grades for the homework - he or she just assumes students are doing it for their own enjoyment. That just never made any sense to me. College students are going to try to get the highest grade possible with the least amount of work.