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Integration (Calculus)
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I just need to vent.
Why is Calculus II sooooo haaaaaaaarrrrddddddddd.
Cause you didn't pay close enough attention in Calc I?
Just playin. It'll click, just keep studying.
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I just need to vent.
Why is Calculus II sooooo haaaaaaaarrrrddddddddd.
Growing up I loved books with puzzles because I knew there had to be an answer (why else would they put them in the book to begin with), and I loved the sense of accomplishment when I figured them out. When I started to hit difficult subjects in college I started to approach them in the same way, and it become much easier because I had fun figuring it out.
Don't know if that approach will help you, but it really helped me. Good luck.
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What's sad is that, coming out of high school and going into University, I validated the exam for Calc II to where I didn't even have to take the class. I skipped right to Diff Eqs.
And now I honestly cannot remember a SINGLE thing about calculus. Not a single thing. It would be like a foreign language to me
One thing that helped me though (while I was taking Calc, etc) ... was to go out and buy extra books to draw from as a resource. I also assigned myself extra problems, etc. In essence, I "tutored" myself though the extra books and materials. I didn't really have the extra time to do this, but I made time to do it if you know what I mean.
ETA: And I'll give a shout out to Oly (I used to live in Lacey) lol
And now I honestly cannot remember a SINGLE thing about calculus. Not a single thing. It would be like a foreign language to me
One thing that helped me though (while I was taking Calc, etc) ... was to go out and buy extra books to draw from as a resource. I also assigned myself extra problems, etc. In essence, I "tutored" myself though the extra books and materials. I didn't really have the extra time to do this, but I made time to do it if you know what I mean.
ETA: And I'll give a shout out to Oly (I used to live in Lacey) lol
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What's sad is that, coming out of high school and going into University, I validated the exam for Calc II to where I didn't even have to take the class. I skipped right to Diff Eqs.
And now I honestly cannot remember a SINGLE thing about calculus. Not a single thing. It would be like a foreign language to me
One thing that helped me though (while I was taking Calc, etc) ... was to go out and buy extra books to draw from as a resource. I also assigned myself extra problems, etc. In essence, I "tutored" myself though the extra books and materials. I didn't really have the extra time to do this, but I made time to do it if you know what I mean.
ETA: And I'll give a shout out to Oly (I used to live in Lacey) lol
I have a similar story. My school ran on the "quarter" system instead of the semester system. Three quarters; fall, spring, and summer, would be the same as other schools two semesters. A full year of study in one class or series of classes could total up to 15 credits. I was able to take an accelerated class that gave you 15 credits in two quarters if you passed both classes. The next year I took Diff EQ's also and it was the only class in all of college where I got "more" than 100%. I got every single test question correct plus an extra credit question on the final. Now, due to nonuse, all of that learning is gone.
I can still do regular calculus, at least a fair amount of it, but everything in the second year, Diff EQ and advanced calculus went bye bye.
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Congrats at that 100%-and-then-some nonetheless
That's quite an accomplishment I can't remember my exact grade, but I got something like 103 or some such on my Calc I BC final. I had the second highest average in the class overall, behind the valedictorian, which shocked everyone ... because not only did I come into the class three weeks late into the semester and had to play catch up, but I was also a nose guard playing football and no one expected that from me 
Dude I can't even do a lick of regular calc. If I took a brush up course or something, things might start things clicking again, I don't know. But isn't it sad when something like that goes bye-bye lol ? Something so elegant
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You can always start over again. This time with some of the best instructors in the world for free:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbIQW0gkgxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbIQW0gkgxo
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Yeah maybe one day I'll learn again ...
And yes, that's currently the awesomeness of the web ... free education
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Speaking of tutoring yourself through books...I was quite successful with that method, as well, and I think I know why...
You know how everyone "hates" story problems as a kid? They just want to deal with the numbers, instead of ALSO having to figure out where the numbers go...
Well, my dad was a stickler for story problems. He felt, quite rightly, that they better prepared you for the future, by helping you associate math with the real world. So I learned to love story problems. It was, as loudmouth said, another kind of puzzle to figure out.
But what I think it also helped me with is being able to teach myself math out of a textbook. Even today, after not having done much math for a decade, I'm quite confident that I'd be able to help my niece with her math all the way through high school, and probably part way through college, just by reading the chapter she is on to brush up.
Story problems for the win. ;-)
You know how everyone "hates" story problems as a kid? They just want to deal with the numbers, instead of ALSO having to figure out where the numbers go...
Well, my dad was a stickler for story problems. He felt, quite rightly, that they better prepared you for the future, by helping you associate math with the real world. So I learned to love story problems. It was, as loudmouth said, another kind of puzzle to figure out.
But what I think it also helped me with is being able to teach myself math out of a textbook. Even today, after not having done much math for a decade, I'm quite confident that I'd be able to help my niece with her math all the way through high school, and probably part way through college, just by reading the chapter she is on to brush up.
Story problems for the win. ;-)
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Of you're running windows, you can download Microsoft mathematics for free. It is a way of checking your equations.
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Thanks everyone for your words of encouragement. The hard part is now over for now (for me, that was learning to interpret all the new symbols, as well as REALLY understanding the nature of limits- very, very well). Gee, that was tough. But integration and these new derivatives we're learning are fun so far!
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