As a counterpoint, a lot of business majors seemed to think that Econ 101, let alone calc-based 410, was the hardest thing in the world.
The class is all graphs but there usually no numbers—it’s all about the intersections and regions under different curves. Usually all drawn with straight lines to keep it simple in 101.
I think the people that found it hard did not have the fluency they needed in mathematics. If you can’t rearrange some simple linear equations, then things become very difficult.
This is so true. I majored in math and economics, and even the 400-level econ classes used exclusively linear equations because the average student in those classes had no idea what an integral was. But they could calculate the area of a triangle.
The class is all graphs but there usually no numbers—it’s all about the intersections and regions under different curves. Usually all drawn with straight lines to keep it simple in 101.
I think the people that found it hard did not have the fluency they needed in mathematics. If you can’t rearrange some simple linear equations, then things become very difficult.