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emyt
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Hi, I'm currently taking a seminar course , it's like a "small group" course (like a lecture as a tutorial) in mathematics. It's open for anybody, most people there actually aren't math students. It's basically a discrete math/combinatorial/"problem solving" driven course but the thing is, I don't like it at all!
I've done some problems in combinatorics before, but it was actually enjoyable.. this is something else. My professor basically leads the class into just guessing for patterns ( for example, in a geometric question, he might create a chart of results and tell people to see patterns (without explanations even) ). It's really annoying because I'd rather see how it works deductively, and not empirically. I'm thinking of dropping out of that course, but before I do, I have to ask: does that seem like a fair way to treat the material? if so, then I probably just have to suck it up and adjust to it.. thanks
I've done some problems in combinatorics before, but it was actually enjoyable.. this is something else. My professor basically leads the class into just guessing for patterns ( for example, in a geometric question, he might create a chart of results and tell people to see patterns (without explanations even) ). It's really annoying because I'd rather see how it works deductively, and not empirically. I'm thinking of dropping out of that course, but before I do, I have to ask: does that seem like a fair way to treat the material? if so, then I probably just have to suck it up and adjust to it.. thanks