Suggestions on how to learn calculus BEFORE I take the series

[Entropee]

Hey guys, I feel too lazy to peruse the forums at this hour, just finished finals week (whew). If anyone has any suggestions, books, video lectures, or otherwise, on how to somewhat sufficiently teach myself calculus BEFORE I take calc classes, please let me know. So basically starting with limits and derivitaves, etc... THANKS!

 

[micromass]

Try watching some Khan academy videos. They're really great!

 

[Entropee]

Whoa just looked at those... SO COOL! Have you used them before?

 

[micromass]

Yes, I have. I used it to learn myself differential equations. Khan academy gives good and easy explanations and examples. But it is absolutely necessary to also read things from a textbook and work out many exercises!

 

[ATranPV]

For me, I concentrated on having a solid foundation in Algebra and Trigonometry. With that, calculus so far has been a breeze.

Know your identities, inverses, how to complete the square, radicals, multiplying by conjugate etc.

 

[Entropee]

Yeah the only thing was I wanted to take it in the summer, where instead of 11 weeks its 6 weeks. So they speed through it.

 

[paulfr]

Excellent videos are at University of Houston
http://online.math.uh.edu/HoustonACT/videocalculus/index.html

I teach Calculus and use them to save time in class for doing problems rather than lectures.