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- From: stephen@europa.inmos.co.uk (Stephen Collyer)
- Subject: Re: US education system terminology?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.133708.20991@titan.inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: stephen@europa (Stephen Collyer)
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
- References: <1992Nov14.120215.42551@urz.unibas.ch> <1992Nov14.224032.13878@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:37:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.224032.13878@eng.umd.edu>, clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
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- |> In article <1992Nov14.120215.42551@urz.unibas.ch>, kullmann@urz.unibas.ch writes:
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- |> >Could someone please enlighten me about the education system in the USA?
- |> >My problem is that the European system (if there is such a thing) seems to
- |> >differ quite a lot from the US, especially in terminology. What does 'under-
- |> >graduate' mean? etc. For comparison I have given an outline of the Swiss
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- [useful summary of education system in USA deleted]
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- |> --
- |> Charles Lin
- |> clin@eng.umd.edu
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- This was very helpful. Thanks. Could someone also outline at what ages kids in the
- USA learn various mathematical concepts, such as algebra, logs, calculus, mechanics
- etc. I get the impression from American maths books that calculus isn't taught at all
- until university. Is this right ? Here in the UK, most science/maths students will have
- done at least 2 years of calculus by the time they get to University. How do Americans
- catch up ?
-
- Steve Collyer.
-