Help and advice needed choosing course

[Redrum]

What up smarties!

As you may know Fall term is right around the corner and I need help deciding on a math course.

First of all I am a word guy, numbers and me suck so I need the most pain free option.

I can't avoid taking the course any longer so...

Is Elementary Statistics (http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator ... 24332.page) or Math for Liberal Arts (http://www.booksamillion.com/product/9780538737791)going to be easier for me?

I can afford to spend all my allotted study time on one subject, I just want to get it over with.

Thanks in advance for looking!

[PyroDelFuego]

Well even without looking I can tell you Math for Liberal Arts would be the better choice because Statistics requires SO MUCH memorization of formulas and such; unless, of course, the professor allows for a cheat sheet. But even then it's still a tough course.

I'd go with Math for L. Arts since it's tailored for Liberal Arts majors.

[dendron]

I went through and read the Abstract for each book, and honestly, it really comes down to you, and how comfortable you feel with mathematical concepts.

The first class, the statistics one, is a ground level elementary statistics book, that seems to focus on laying the foundation of statistics, which to be honest, is fairly simply. That may be biased though, since I do fair well with numbers. But either way, statistics is honestly not that hard of a concept given what the table of contents for that particular book showed to contain.

The second class, is most definitely focused on those of the liberal arts regime. The website for that book that you linked contained significantly less information than the other one, but I was able to ascertain that it contains mostly simple math problems that will potentially be presented in a, at the very least, somewhat abstract manner. I don't know how well you fair with this type of math/word problem, but they confuse and anger me, so I attempt to avoid them.

If it were me, I would most likely take the statistics course, but it would seem that you and I differ quite a bit on our views of math and words

Also, are these the only courses that will fulfill this requirement, or are there others you can choose from, but wrote them off for whatever reason?

[Redrum]

Thanks for the reply's.

These are not the only courses offered but I really don't want to go any higher, I need painless as possible. I currently have a 3.8 cumulative GPA (4.0) and I don't want to risk flubbing it.

I'd rather be honest and say I am going to be a math moron forever, and I''m okay with that lol. I'm not planning on engineering...

... but I do use the hell out of my Casio fx-300ms!

[dendron]

oddly enough, I did my Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering >.>

And, when I asked if there were any other courses offered, I meant other courses that were on the same level as those. Like college algebra, etc.

[Redrum]

Like college algebra, etc.

I unfortunately took two semesters of prereq algebra courses... somewhere around factoring polynomials and cubed numbers my brain shutdown..

There is college level Algebra, yet with all the trouble intermediate (read:High School level =( ) Algebra, I am trying to avoid it.

I used a "program" to pass my final in math 99 LOL.

But I get straight A's in everything else, go figure... I heard Einstein was terrible in math too!

I have to make it a point to go to Math class sober this year I suppose... might help.

[dendron]

gotcha. And if it makes you feel any better, when my roommate and I were working on our undergrad, he took a college algebra course where all tests, quizzes, and homeworks were online, so I got him a perfect average in the course

[Terryn]

I have to make it a point to go to Math class sober this year I suppose... might help.

nothing is more exciting than the Laplace transform drinking game

[Kordolin]

nothing is more exciting than the Laplace transform drinking game

Never heard of this one. Do tell.

[Redrum]

nothing is more exciting than the Laplace transform drinking game

Never heard of this one. Do tell.

Well I looked up "Laplace transform" LOL!

That game must be fun considering the assumption that you have to drink when you get a wrong solution. I'd be shitfaced!

So I droped the Statistics course in favor for the liberal arts math, after skimming the book the material seems to get simpler towards the back of the book... whatever.



*(points to crotch)

[Terryn]

nothing is more exciting than the Laplace transform drinking game

Never heard of this one. Do tell.

every time your answer is 0 - drink

[Tsikura]

Never heard of that game.

[Terryn]

We made it up in my diff eq and kept track of our answers on our final. Needless to say I was shwasted by the end of the game