>>11151088By lab I mean an "extra" day of class outside of the regular 3 hours a week. Yup, required teamwork. This was moreso in the second year courses, ie. Intro to analysis, lin alg 2, but it really made it more engaging, especially when we were having troubles with a proof. With the first year classes, particularly the calcs, the labs were there for you to take a quiz, and then work on the lab reports with the prof/lab assistant nearby. After the quiz you could just fuck off, if you were so inclined. The shitty prof at my Uni is the "applied math guy" tm, and he is obsessed with maple.The majority of my numerical analysis course was just maple, instead of the theory behind what we were doing. We had to force him to stop using it so much in multivariable calc. At least he taught us the commands though, sheesh. I really liked discrete math, it's the class that really got me into math, and removed my doubts about majoring in it. It's honestly, in my opinion, the best part about our math program. Students should be well versed in a lot of those topics by the time they start sophmore year, bare min. How can you do any analysis if you haven't seen set notation/relations, or how to formulate a proof, or even the types of proofs that exists? Seems crazy to me.
