Is anyone taking or did anyone take calculus, cause personally I hate it. Normally I'm good at mathematics and I'm doing well in calc (b o.o), but I just hate it. Maybe cause it actually makes me work. wow Anyone else taking calculus?
Yeah, I take Calculus BC..I just had a pretty hard final...I didn't even understand half the problems :? I'm still doing well in the class, aside from the final.
i take calc, but im only in grade 12 and i live in canada so i dunno if our course has different content. But i'm doing just fine, i find it stupid easy.
I don't know what is calculus Maybe it coincide with italian analisys... I hate it! But I do a scientific liceo (secondary school focused on science and maths), and I do geometry, algebra, analisys and a lot of strange things XD I can't think that I've choseen this school 'cause in the middle school maths was my favourite subject, and now I hate it :?
Uhm if I've understood what is calculus... I think that you can mistake everything because of a step wrong in algebra. 'Cause in calculus you can see what is wrong by the graphic or not? So... I've seen that in your schools maths is called by extents... vey good thing I think! From me there isn't this partitions.
I find that if you can't think in terms of symbols and hypotheticals, then you can't do calculus, especially the higher-end calc. See, math started simply with objects. If I have two apples and add one, how many apples do I have? Then we move to numbers, which are symbols representing the apples. Then we move to letters representing sets or unknown numbers. Then we move to imaginary numbers, and operations that you can't do by hand. Everything just sort of snowballs until at the end you realize that everything that you are doing is all hypothetical. Let's assume we have a number, we'll call it X, which represents the radius of this fake sphere, which is enclosed within this cube.... I mean, at the end, we're just making up situations, giving you numbers and asking you to solve them. A lot of people have a hard time when they can't picture or imagine what they're doing anymore. It's nice to memorize a formula, but if you don't know how it works, it won't help you in the long run. That's why the good math teachers make their students derive the rules before giving it to them; so they can potentially learn how and why it works before actually doing it. The best thing I could say would be to try and make sense of what you're doing with pictures. If you're confused, ask why. Always ask why. Sometimes if the explanation is re-worded slightly, or just explained differently, you'll get it quickly. But it won't be re-worded or explained again unless you ask. Oh, and don't ever feel too proud or ashamed for a tutor. They really help.
I never took Calculus, and was never faced with it in college either... Some of my friends took it in highschool and some are kind of like... "Oh, you didn't take calculus?" -scoff- But seriously.. Do your best with it and get through it. It's very likely calculus will never again leer its ugly head.
im gonna take calculas AP next year for my final high school year, if i do well it counts as university credits