With your overpriced and underthroughput "high speed" internet connections.
I live in Edmonton,Alberta Canada and the two main providers we have here (Shaw an Telus) both offer high speed internet for $34.95 CDN. On Shaw you can get speeds of upto 800 KB/S (thats kilobytes not kilobits) if your downloading from multiple sources but they actually check and enforce limits. On Telus you get a 1.5 Megabit down 512 kilobit up connection. I'm suppoed to have a limit of 5GB down a month and 1GB up but I have gone over that many times and its never been enforced. Plus I signed up for my DSL when it first game out so I'm on a network with all Cisco gear which has only gone down for a total of manybe 20 minutes that I've noticed over the past 4 years. Now they have switched to D-Link and Linksys stuff. The other great thing is that they told me I have a dynamic IP but it hasn't changed once since I got my service.
I still wish it was even faster. I know a guy who worked at telus and simply by removing my bandwidth cap I could be getting 7-8 Megabits per second.
I started learning fractions in grade 4 and by grade 6 I could add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions easily.
In grade 7 started learning basic equation solving and pythagorean theorem. By grade 9 I could factor simple binomials and do simple trig (find the length of the other side of a right angled triangle when you know an angle and a side length).
I took 5 math courses in high school two of them calculus courses. I wrote the American College Board Advanced Placement Calculus BC exam and scored a 5. I'm entering the faculty of engineering at the University of Alberta and my first two calculus courses will be pretty much review. Im gonna laugh when some prof starts talking about Polar equations and Taylor polynomials and no one has a clue to what he is talking about.
Here in Alberta once you hit high school we have two math streams one for those interested in going to university which teach algebra and trigonometry. The other is for those not going to post secondary or entering lower level trade or technical schools.
I've heard that in Germany they take it a step further and aroud grade 9 those we are going to university take courses to prepare them for university and everyone else begins to learn a useful trade like woodworking or welding.
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With your overpriced and underthroughput "high speed" internet connections. I live in Edmonton,Alberta Canada and the two main providers we have here (Shaw an Telus) both offer high speed internet for $34.95 CDN. On Shaw you can get speeds of upto 800 KB/S (thats kilobytes not kilobits) if your downloading from multiple sources but they actually check and enforce limits. On Telus you get a 1.5 Megabit down 512 kilobit up connection. I'm suppoed to have a limit of 5GB down a month and 1GB up but I have gone over that many times and its never been enforced. Plus I signed up for my DSL when it first game out so I'm on a network with all Cisco gear which has only gone down for a total of manybe 20 minutes that I've noticed over the past 4 years. Now they have switched to D-Link and Linksys stuff. The other great thing is that they told me I have a dynamic IP but it hasn't changed once since I got my service. I still wish it was even faster. I know a guy who worked at telus and simply by removing my bandwidth cap I could be getting 7-8 Megabits per second.
I started learning fractions in grade 4 and by grade 6 I could add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions easily. In grade 7 started learning basic equation solving and pythagorean theorem. By grade 9 I could factor simple binomials and do simple trig (find the length of the other side of a right angled triangle when you know an angle and a side length). I took 5 math courses in high school two of them calculus courses. I wrote the American College Board Advanced Placement Calculus BC exam and scored a 5. I'm entering the faculty of engineering at the University of Alberta and my first two calculus courses will be pretty much review. Im gonna laugh when some prof starts talking about Polar equations and Taylor polynomials and no one has a clue to what he is talking about. Here in Alberta once you hit high school we have two math streams one for those interested in going to university which teach algebra and trigonometry. The other is for those not going to post secondary or entering lower level trade or technical schools. I've heard that in Germany they take it a step further and aroud grade 9 those we are going to university take courses to prepare them for university and everyone else begins to learn a useful trade like woodworking or welding.