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I graduated from high school in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1988. Your textbook there looks like integral calculus. In my last year of high school, grade 12, we only just touched on the basics of calculus -really simple derivations. I didn't really do calculus until my first semester of university, and didn't do integral calculus until my second semester.
You got me curious, so I looked up my former high school. It looks like they teach calculus now in grade 12. High school in Nova Scotia lasts three years, grades 10, 11, and 12.
http://www.cpa.ednet.ns.ca/mathematics/index.htm
Here's what my high school is teaching in science these days. It's about what I remember learning, except they didn't offer "Geology" or "Oceans" in my day, just biology, chemistry and physics.
http://www.cpa.ednet.ns.ca/science/index.htm
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| quote: | Originally posted by lborgia88
I graduated from high school in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1988. Your textbook there looks like integral calculus. In my last year of high school, grade 12, we only just touched on the basics of calculus -really simple derivations. I didn't really do calculus until my first semester of university, and didn't do integral calculus until my second semester.
You got me curious, so I looked up my former high school. It looks like they teach calculus now in grade 12. High school in Nova Scotia lasts three years, grades 10, 11, and 12.
http://www.cpa.ednet.ns.ca/mathematics/index.htm
Here's what my high school is teaching in science these days. It's about what I remember learning, except they didn't offer "Geology" or "Oceans" in my day, just biology, chemistry and physics.
http://www.cpa.ednet.ns.ca/science/index.htm |
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Thank you very much, LB!  So far the syllabus is very much like my own!
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| quote: | Originally posted by Transmute Jun
I don't know about European schools, but that looks to be about the level of calculus I covered during my last year of high school. Of course, when I went to undergrad, not everyone had had the same level of calculus, so we covered all of that again in first year. The Basic (i.e. not honors/theoretical) first year Calculus course at a Canadian/American university would cover that stuff.
(And FTR, Ebony, even as an accountant, I NEVER do calculus. At least, not since I left grad school.) |
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Did you do Ontario's grade 13, TJ? I remember at McGill, all the Ontario students had done grade 13, and they definitely had a leg up where the maths and sciences were concerned. But, they didn't really get any credit for it, unlike Quebec's CEGEP students, who automatically bypassed all the first year science classes and were put right into the second year program.
Completely irrelevant piece of trivia:
This guy, Cameron Mathison, sat in the row in front of me, in my freshman Physics class at McGill in the fall of 1988. I thought he was gorgeous but was far too shy to say a word to him. Looks like he made about as much use of the Physics class as I did though, in the end.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558950/
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| quote: | Originally posted by lborgia88
Did you do Ontario's grade 13, TJ? I remember at McGill, all the Ontario students had done grade 13, and they definitely had a leg up where the maths and sciences were concerned. But, they didn't really get any credit for it, unlike Quebec's CEGEP students, who automatically bypassed all the first year science classes and were put right into the second year program. |
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Yes. I was actually around the first time they seriously started trying to get rid of grade 13, and I ended up doing an accelerated program where I did grades 9-13 in four years. Actually, what ended up happening was that I did grades 9-12 in three years, and then had a proper grade 13 year. So yes, I'm talking about my grade 13 calculus class.
Fortunately, at Queen's, we didn't have any of those elitist Quebequois stereotypes. 
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| quote: | Originally posted by lborgia88
Back then, he had longer, shaggier hair and, fashion-wise, dressed "early grunge," but every time he turned sideways, I'd be admiring his profile.
I really don't remember too much from that class! But, that's mostly because about a year later, I switched majors from Chemistry to History and ceased to make any use of my science classes.
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I hear you, LB! I still have my undergrad economics notes. That prof was so good... one of the best teachers I've ever had! And the notes are so clear... I hate to get rid of them! I mean, suppose I run for political office someday and need to explain an economic concept? 
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