<p>As you see, this may be nothing to you, but I am taking the IB math HL, which every high school student that knows of this course fears it as Captain Jack Sparrow fears Davy Jones. (i just saw the movie, sorry)</p>
<p>If questions arise (and I'm sure many will) regarding the materials on this course for the next school year, would you be so very kind to help me out?</p>
<p>Thanks. :]</p>
<p>I don't mean to be a jerk, but this behavior is a little odd. I'm pretty sure that if you tried, you'd be able to find people close to you willing to help you. Do you have a friend you can work with or a teacher who is willing to help you? Perhaps you could get a job and hire a tutor? </p>
<p>Is it fair for you to receive such aid? Why isn't everyone else asking for help with their homework, and why should someone answer your questions instead of someone else's? You are essentially asking strangers to work for you for free. As everyone has their own problems, I'm sure you understand that we don't just sit around twiddling our thumbs all day. Is it right for someone to turn away from his coursework (which helps him be a better researcher) or his research, which benefits human understanding of the world, to help you? As things go, you will find that any problems you may find yourself facing are insignificant. If you don't fully understand a concept, try again. There are websites such as Mathworld and Wikipedia which can help you out. You can visit a local library for further reading. If all this fails, maybe you only need time. The ability to learn independently is a very important skill; perhaps you should invest your effort in developing it rather than going for the short-term gain from trying to cram math into your head that you'll rarely use (unless you're a math or physics major) and probably learn later anyway.</p>
<p>(Seriously now: )
I find that a lot of people find it quite difficult to learn hard concepts over the phone, e-mail, or AIM. Being next to someone and being able to see exactly how they're working and where they're struggling really helps a teacher understand what the student needs to be told in order to grasp the concept at hand. I highly recommend you find someone who can help you in person.</p>
<p>I see..well, i don't mean to be so pushy as to ask anyone on this forum for a complete explanation. I do have your advice in mind, and will ask ONLY if a] the teacher isn't available/doesn't want to tell me the unforeseen error/trick, and b] if any of my fellow classmates are not able to figure it out.</p>
<p>just going back and rereading my post, i'm kind of ashamed :$ sorry about that.</p>
<p>While you're at it, Golub, you can do my math homework too...</p>
<p>pangolin -- it would be an honor. i don't think i could do the EE kind of math homework though; it seems to involve the basement of moore and chickens.</p>
<p>konadian -- feel free to ask on this forum (though may i recommend artofproblemsolving.org for a possibly more appropriate venue). i probably won't be able to solve the problems, but we have lots of smart prefrosh (<em>waves to lizzardfire and flierdeke and other prefrosh</em>) who can. :-D</p>
<p>:] thanks (10 char!)</p>
<p>I had a bunch of friends taking IB HL and from what I heard it was not that hard. In fact, most of the people taking it found it easier than Calc BC.</p>
<p>Ben didn't wave to me! I'm hurt.</p>
<p>It's one of the great disadvantages of message boards: everyone knows exactly who you wave to.</p>
<p>If it makes you feel better, both neapol1s and flierdeke are much, much, much more knowledgeable on the subject of mathematics than I am.</p>
<p><em>waves to neapol1s</em></p>
<p>ack! i guess i don't consider neapol1s one of the "cc prefrosh". he is in a different category. (you also should post more. no you shouldn't.)</p>
<p><em>waves at neapol1s</em></p>
<p>IB Math HL is rather difficult if your school teaches strictly towards the AP Calc BC test.
Also, I find the "Fellow Caltechers" subject highly misleading when this is in fact just a request for answers to high school math questions.</p>
<p>Ben, I switched to CS ages ago. The chicken sacrifices in Moore finally got to me during third term frosh year. Now I sacrifice goats in Jorgenson and hang out in dark alleys trying to find people selling the same drugs that the big algorithms guys were on. :D</p>
<p>Hahaha : ). Paul Erdos apparently did an immense amount of meth. Not quite an algorithms guy, but a precursor, maybe. In any case, I am impressed. goats >> chickens.</p>
<p>halfthelaw, it is misleading. that was the whole point, for me to see the lights shed by these CC luminaries.</p>
<p>i like how we changed the topic from math to meth.</p>
<p>I doubt the "luminaries" appreciate your deception very much. They seem more than willing to answer topics in this forum without someone trying to trick them into doing so.</p>
<p>if you thought i was trying to trick them, i apologize to the unintentional consequences of my precise wordings to the title thread. and to my last post, i was trying to sound more light. sorry if you couldn't see that.</p>
<p>:-/ i don't think that the luminaries would look at my post and say "dear god! what agony!?! how dare a prefrosh trick me into reading her thread! i'll not have this!"</p>
<p>again, take it easy. i think i've found my answer in Ben Golub's post--artofproblemsolving.org is indeed a coool website. and i realize that i can also ask questions to many other brilliant prefrosh. I just wasn't aware of all this information when I'd put up the thread, hence the explanation in my original post.</p>
<p>Before you approach someone with a math problem, you may want to give some serious thought to the problem. Thinking may result in your discovering the solution yourself, which often leads to deeper knowledge. Discussing the problem with others can lead to expanded knowledge, since they may have used a different approach to solving the problem. But first work hard to find the solution yourself. You'll be better off in the long run. Of course, if substantial thinking leads you nowhere, by all means seek help from someone else.</p>
<p>Well said, ElleF. as well as what I have noticed in other's opinion about this thread. I have learned that and do keep that in mind now. Unfortunately, there is no way I can 1] delete this thread to show that i have gained this knowledge, and 2] change the title of this thread, despite its "tricks".</p>
<p>Don't worry about the thread. No doubt there are others who will read it and learn, too. In the long run, you may have helped more people than you know.</p>