do u find calculus is easy or tough? i just cant seem to understand it. please help.?

Question

is there any book which will guide me in detail about the fundamentals of calculus? this is very important to me. how do i learn and understand this subject? please help!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I loved math and breezed through it until calculus. It is really important to have a good teacher or tutor. Some teachers don't really teach you and you can't move on in the book if you don't understand the underlying concepts...

My advice is to try another instructor or get a good tutor. Good luck!

Answer 2

Calculus is hard at first, then it gets easier, then it was hard again when I learned harder calculus. The key to learning anything is time invested. The power of repetition cannot be underestimated. Just sit down with a list of integration/derivative problems and chug away. No matter how hard something seems, it's always 10 times easier the second time. This is doubly true for something as unfamilar as calculus. I recommend using the Princeton Review's AP review book. It has a lot of problems and was written by a very smart (good teacher) MIT graduate.

Remember, just because the kid next to you seems to be "getting" it, you can never know how much time he spent at home or if he had a great parent teacher. Don't be discourage and invest the time to be good!

Answer 3

the one and only think you should do to master calculus IS:

Take any book with maximum possible questions. solved and unsolved. Better you can try question banks. Just on a plain paper jot down all the formulas where they apply with concentrating to the principles of each formulae. Now. with each formula try some solved question strictly in application with that single formula. follow for every singles. do four or five for each. When over with indiviadual solutions now go for a complex questions (Note: when its written complex question in the book, it means only that once you know how to solve them they are the simplest and the more loved once.) . And never ever try mugging up a question. Apply a thought. like IF ITS THIS WAY I SHUD THINK THIS WAY OR THAT WAY.
After you do some integration, differentiation, limits etc (i dont remember much but really went a bad time with them , always was an escapist to these but fell in love for a quiet while, in my b.tech biotech i scored 38 out of hunderd and on a boundary in the first term exams, i had to work hard i.e. only sit and do calculus, calculus and calculus and then in thef inals i was able catch up to 78%). When you do enough of rehersals, just place o notebook on the solution of the question and solve the question by your self. Then tally. and bajao taali if you win. other wise the book wins.
Next when you are through with these solve as many as possible sitdown. take a awtch, lay countdowns how much time did you take to solve these questions.
The beauty of sulution lies in crips and clarity and less number of statementrs and TO THE POINT STATEMENTS. (STEPS THAT YOU SHOW)
In the beginning when you are learner, you would need to explain yourself each and every small step in the solution for the sake of yourunderstanding but once you solve ample quesses you yourself wud feel which step is suitsble to be shown and which ones not.
There you wud attain thge beauty of your solution. I was a dumb in calculus but had to be tuted by my younger brother who was master and taught me how to do calculus in a nutshell of time.



Happy calculusssing...

just smile when you solve the question whether its right or left (=wrong).

hihihi.

Maths can be solved but not learned on inetnet. Please stick to books believ me book helps learn fast, or better get a tution , a good one. but internet help is worthless.

Answer 4

Elementary Calculus is relatively easy to understand if you have a god knowledge of trigonometry, geometry and analytic geometry. Just make sure you understand the basics. If you do not, you'll soon be lost.

Try Calculus for Dummies. Go to one of the bookstores and look at the first chapter and see if it is for you.

Answer 5

I returned to school after 15 years away last year, and since it is in an engineering program I knew I had to polish up the calculus. I got "Beginning Calculus" from Schaum's Outlines, published by McGraw-Hill. It's very good.

This is not exactly what I have, but it's the same series and author:
http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Calculus-Elliott-Mendelson/dp/0070419736

Answer 6

Its all Egyptian to me.

(I know the phrase goes "its all Greek to me" but I learned Greek in only 3 weeks, it was a very easy language..... so now I have to say Egyptian instead of Greek)

Answer 7

I used this site to guide me through calc I and II:
http://www.math.temple.edu/~cow/

The examples walk you through each step and you can learn the subject by clicking help button.