Oh, no they aren't.
They're an evil kind of GUESSING GAME, though.
Thus the danger in asking children who are highly verbal and
have been treated to this kind of thing how THEY feel about particular elements of the math curriculum.
DD, thankfully, had the emotional maturity not to SCREAM 'YeeeeeeHAW!!!!' into the phone at the Honors College advisor when informed that she didn't, in fact, NEED to show a transcript with MTH 112 on it to place into calculus next fall.
Just noting that this kind of thing takes quite a toll on kids who are not NT in their approach/thinking. It's sad to see. DD loves math. She just hates
the math course. She's actually very excited by the material-- which makes her anger all the more intense when the crappy curriculum RUINS it and sucks all of the joy and real learning from it.
