Self-teaching myself some calculus

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around self-teaching calculus in preparation for a Calculus II course. Participants share resources and strategies for learning key topics such as derivatives, antiderivatives, and basic integration, focusing on free online materials.

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  • One participant outlines their need to learn derivatives, antiderivatives, and integration before an upcoming course.
  • Another participant recommends Khan Academy for its structured video lessons and practice problems.
  • Some participants mention additional resources, including documents from Scribd and a problems list from UC Davis.
  • There is a discussion about the order of learning, with multiple participants suggesting that differentiation should be learned before integration.

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Participants generally agree on the importance of learning differentiation first, but there is no consensus on the best overall approach or resources beyond the recommendations made.

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Participants express varying levels of familiarity with calculus concepts, and there are references to specific resources without detailed evaluations of their effectiveness.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals preparing for calculus courses, self-learners seeking online resources, and those looking for structured learning paths in mathematics.

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Hello, I need to teach myself some calculus before a course in Calculus II begins this summer.

Here is what I need to teach myself:
-Derivates (chain rule, quotient, group, power, the six trigs)
-Antiderivatives
-Basic integration

I am already familiar with the definition of a derivative, finding limits, and finding asymptotes, so I can work from there. What would be the best way to go about learning this stuff? I would prefer free material online. I have looked for some videos on youtube but it is difficult to tell which ones I should do first, because there is always little bits of stuff in each video that I don't know.

Could someone leave me with some information or links and what order to learn this stuff in? Thanks.
 
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This site has a complete Calculus section of 100 short
10 minute videos. The sequence is in an appropriate order for learnng.
www.khanacademy.org

Some of the documents here may help you retain what you
learn at Khan. Note the 3 Calculus Documents
www.scribd.com/pfreda
The documents look much better when downloaded.
 
paulfr said:
www.khanacademy.org

Some of the documents here may help.
Note the 3 Calculus Documents
www.scribd.com/pfreda

I saw the khanacademy stuff on youtube and it looked good. Now that I have the site, I know what order to do it in. They have some good practice problems there too. So, this solves a lot of my problems, thanks.

Any other resources?
 
Definitely learn Differentiation first.
 
paulfr said:
Definitely learn Differentiation first.

Fantastic, thank you, now I know exactly what to do.
 

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