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How did you pass Calculus? Any tips?

Icy Black Deep

Still training...
As others said, lots of practice. The problem is that your class seems to not provide this in any way. (At my school calc was a 5-day-a-week class; I think I'd demand a refund for a class that meets once a week and basically tells you to teach yourself.)

You will have to be self-motivated here. Tutors, friends, classmates, even if they're in the same boat as you studying with others will help.
 

GGA Max

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You can also just youtube these topics. For me, it helps to hear it explained in different ways, so there are a ton of perspectives in yt vids.
 
As others said, lots of practice. The problem is that your class seems to not provide this in any way. (At my school calc was a 5-day-a-week class; I think I'd demand a refund for a class that meets once a week and basically tells you to teach yourself.)

You will have to be self-motivated here. Tutors, friends, classmates, even if they're in the same boat as you studying with others will help.
Worst part is, that it's a 10 week class and final is November 20 something. WHAT DO I DO. I'm panicking. Lol. Gladly one is a take home exam, which, I plan to 100%. BASED TYM.

3 Exams. Midterm (will have to bust ass), Take Home which we have a week to do. Final and online questions that's 10% of our grade but I bought my book used now I gotta buy the fucking key for like $200. And asshole teacher is like, well, you don't have to do the online as long as you Ace everything.

I'm sitting here like

 

Dizzy

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Specifically got a degree that didnt require calc, lol
 

roosTakk

Chode Juggler
Hmm have you thought about...studying?




But really...suprised no one else has said it..brush up on your Algebra..the hardest parts of calculus are very confusing if you dont have a good base knowledge of algebra. Good at algebra + study = good at calculus

Source: went though calc 1-5
 

Dizzy

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I was going to go to UIC cuz it's cheaper, but I registered late so I went to Depaul, pretty sure it's hard all over Chicago. But I think Depaul is stricter. What'd you get?
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Hmm have you thought about...studying?




But really...suprised no one else has said it..brush up on your Algebra..the hardest parts of calculus are very confusing if you dont have a good base knowledge of algebra. Good at algebra + study = good at calculus

Source: went though calc 1-5
Yeah. I'll bursh on Algebra, but, don't know where actually. I don't have books. I'll just go thru Khan Academy.
 

juicepouch

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Just keep working and ask on absolutely anything you're unclear on. With Calc (for me as somebody who likes the big picture) a lot of it was just stuff that didn't seem to make sense for why it needed to be done until I had the teacher or another student explain why I needed to take the derivative here or there, etc. Once I understood what the goal of each problem was, even if I didn't honestly remember how to do it, I could try and reasonably put together how it was supposed to work. Especially with Business Calc, that'll be the case a lot
 

roosTakk

Chode Juggler
Yeah. I'll bursh on Algebra, but, don't know where actually. I don't have books. I'll just go thru Khan Academy.
Heres the basic idea:

-Get to problem you don't know how to solve
-try to solve it (you must try)
-fail
-read the solution
-go back and learn why/how its solved that way, including learning the algebra involved if its something tricky
-repeat


Honestly your just going to have to bang your head against it a bunch and do what I wrote above as much as possible. Its like anything else, with practice you'll get good...just pretend your playing igau =)


Edit: you can watch youtube videos on calc all day but its not going to help as much as doing practice problems imho
 

Jeffreys

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I didn't think the first calculus was that bad, its early in the semester so does that mean you are doing limits?

Wait till you do Calc 2, that was horrible. Doing Calc 3 right now, I am such a masochist ._.
 
I'm only going to explain this once, because everyone here is giving poop tier advice. You don't even have to study for math.

Just keep doing math problems.

The more you do the math problems, the concepts will stick with you. And this goes for Calculus, Trig, Geometry, And Stats.

Tldr- go do practice questions. Keep doing them, then you'll learn.
 

Youphemism

Gunslinger since pre patch (sh/out to The Farmer)
Not sure what Calculus covers over there, but I studied Advanced Higher Maths at (I'm pretty sure your equivalent is called) high school and got an A. I also just kind of get maths so if you have any problems I'd be happy to help :)

In fact maybe just make a group chat on TYM of all the people who want to help so you can ask questions there if you're having trouble if you'd like :)
 
I am a mathematics major, so I will be taking lots of math classes as well :p. I am in Precalculus II atm, and I just took an exam which I believe I did like average on unfortunately because I didn't get a chance to study for it like I wanted to (for personal/family reasons). I don't mind math, I just hate when I make little mistakes that'll cause me to miss a problem (like forgetting to convert something to a different measure and etc.) But enough about me, I suggest that you do practice problems, study the textbook some, go to a tutor, go to office hours, make friends with some people in your class and do study groups, etc.