Anyone major in math??

[slateman]

Well, I researched it somemore and theres no way I could pull this off and graduate within a couple years. There's this requirement that 45 credits must be taken at the 300 level or above. Of these, the minor in math only meets six. 21 credits and only 6 go towards that? Too much work.

I'm gonna get minors in Pyschology and Islamic Studies.

Oh well. Thanks for the help guys!

[Miscue]

Here at rpi you need the basic courses, calc1, 2, differential equations, multivareable calc and linear algebra, plus 4 4000 level courses to get a minor. You might have some trouble going from algebra 2 right to calc 1. Usually, you'll take geometry, and precalculus (or advanced math or trig, whatever you call it) before calculus. I'm pretty sure that calculus is the lowest math that's offered here. If you go right from algebra 2, to calculus, you might have some problems. I'd find out what you need for a minor at your school.

What's kinda cool is, once you do your math for one engineering degree - that usually covers it for other engineering degrees.

[gimp]

yeah, definetly. You take all these math courses and learn all these useless math things. Then you take the engineering courses and learn how to apply the math you've learned to the proper applications. I wish I'd realized that while taking the math courses. Maybe I would have paid attention a little more.

[Sir_Brass]

I was one class from a math minor, and didn't realize it until I was about to graduate. If you go for an engineering degree, you'll take a bunch of math and will probably be 1-2 classes away from a minor.

For us EE's, ALL our required math classes plus the required math elective are enough for a math minor. All an EE needs to do is just declare a math minor then say which math elective he'll go for (statistics, complex variables, or linear algebra) and then get that and boom, he'll graduate with a math minor.

I've already gone that path when I declared my math minor early this academic year and said I was going to take linear algebra (will be a great help to me as an EE when I graduate with my EE degree).

I used to suck at math in high school, but in college, math has rocked . It's much harder, yes, but I'm finding that I have this knack for it that never manifested itself in HS .

[kscullin]

This may help: I SUCKED in Algebra in HS. Apparently I passed (looking back at my transcript), but I don't know how. I just plain didn't get it (kept looking for the numerical answer from manipulation, couldn't grasp the concept of how a variable actually works - "Whaddaya mean, it can be anything I want?!?"). I joined the Navy as a Gunner's Mate and went to Basic Electricity/Electronics school. Suddenly, it all became clear - I understood Algebra and Trig! When I went to college, I majored in Electronics (almost all math), got my AAS, then went back and took more math (calc, algorithms, etc.) - pretty much majored in math and physics working on credits toward my BS (still haven't finished it), and earned myself another AS in math/physics on the way.

Sounds promising that you taught yourself Algebra II - I think you could easily get away with a math minor.

[deadeye9]

There are three major benefits to being good in math:

1) Respect

2) Fame

3) Fortune

The degree to which you obtain these benefits, depends on your ability.