I'm a 17-year-old senior in high school right now. I'm currently taking pre-calculus and plan on studying calculus in college so that I can eventually teach it.
Does anyone know if either pre-calculus or AP calculus are taught in Danish high schools (gymnasium)? If either subject is taught in high school, I'd like to teach there.
My other option is to teach calculus on the college level, which I don't mind, but I would have to further my education in order to become a professor.
This also might be a stupid question or sound like I'm disconnected, but are any school courses besides English taught in English? I'm learning Danish, but I know I'd have to learn a lot of technical language, especially considering that it's math.
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The original was posted on /r/denmark by /u/IndicationSpecial344 at 2024-03-10 15:47:51+00:00.
Itsamesolairo at 2024-03-10 16:16:30+00:00 ID:
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Danish high schools teach calculus up to what the US would consider Calculus 2. Math up to Calc 1 is mandatory for most HS students. However, the format of Danish math classes is very different from US ones, with e.g. minimal time spent on trig identities and similar roté learning, and far less time spent on limits and series.
Then you almost certainly need to learn fluent Danish and complete a Master's in Math at a Danish university. You will need to learn fluent Danish pre-admission.
Note that you will need to pay full tuition - which is in the same ballpark as US tuition - because you are not an EU national.
Generally, no - at least not until the graduate level. A few high schools have English-language programs in math and a few other courses, but they're rare and being a native English speaker will not give you a leg up.
Consider this a warning with the best of intentions from someone currently in academia: "being a professor" is a career plan in the same way that winning the lottery is a retirement plan.
IndicationSpecial344 (OP) at 2024-03-10 16:24:08+00:00 ID:
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Thank you for the info on the different formatting of classes!
I'm planning on finishing university in the U.S. Does it make sense for me to get my bachelor's degree here and then get my master's in math at a Danish university? Where would I be able to learn Danish properly in a program?
I appreciate the warning about being a professor. I was admittedly leaning away from that because I didn't want to go through even more work with what I already have planned on my plate.
Itsamesolairo at 2024-03-10 16:27:47+00:00 ID:
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That is probably your most realistic avenue, as you wouldn't need to speak fluent Danish to be admitted. However, the program will not make any effort to teach you Danish, so you will need to learn that on the side via e.g. a language school.
You will also need to be extremely careful that you actually fulfill the admission requirements. Danish university degrees are far more focused than US ones, and you may fall short of the admission requirements if too much of your degree is taken up by non-math classes.
IndicationSpecial344 (OP) at 2024-03-10 16:29:53+00:00 ID:
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Do you know of any language schools I could attend? I need to mostly focus on vocabulary as compared to grammar at this point.
Also, I do intend on my classes being mostly math-focused. Are any other courses (e.g. English, Danish, history) a requirement to graduate from a Danish university as they are here in the U.S.?
Itsamesolairo at 2024-03-10 16:32:00+00:00 ID:
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You will have to do that research yourself. Make sure to look for ones that offer the option to take the Prøve i Dansk exams.
No, Danish university degrees specifically do not contain out-of-major classes (although they can be taken as electives in certain programmes), which is why you need to be extremely careful.
IndicationSpecial344 (OP) at 2024-03-10 16:35:46+00:00 ID:
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Thanks for telling me about the exams!
Is it specifically related math courses I should be taking, then?
Jaricksen at 2024-03-10 17:04:28+00:00 ID:
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In Denmark, a student applying for a masters program in maths will have taken three years of pure math classes already. To add to this, they will already have taken what amounts to calculus 1 and 2 in high school.
So make sure that you spend at least 3 out of 4 of your years in a US college only doing math classes, if you want the best possible chance of getting in.
You should be taking classes in proof techniques, real analysis, complex analysis, proof-based geometry, pure algebra (ring theory and the like), probability theory, measurement theory, topology, etc.
This will likely go beyond what is typically requirement for a math major in a US BA programme.
IndicationSpecial344 (OP) at 2024-03-10 17:11:58+00:00 ID:
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Thank you for the recommendation!