Reddit reviews How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide
We found 22 Reddit comments about How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Reddit reviews How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise GuideWe found 22 Reddit comments about How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide is charming. It does an excellent job scaffolding intuitive understanding without unnecessarily sacrificing rigor. It took me at least three attempts to properly spell the word "unnecessarily" in the previous sentence.
Extremely delayed edit: It also has the marked advantage of being quite cheap.
Everyone has to take MATH 150--MATH 152's prerequisite isn't Calculus 12. So after 150, you're at the same level as everyone else.
A tip: make sure when studying, you understand every part of what's being taught. You won't be able to just memorize this stuff. If you don't get something, spend a bit of time trying to figure it out, move forward if the following information doesn't rely on what you're passing, but come back to it later and try again and again till you understand what that thing is, how it works, and why. YouTube the name of what you're having trouble with, cause there are going to be several tutorials from people on there per topic.
You'll have to put in the hours, though, and study smart. Remember: being a student is your job, and 3 courses is full time (equivalent to 9-5 Mon-Fri). SFU uses the "flipped classroom" where you're supposed to read the sections of the textbook before class, the lecture reinforces and clarifies the most important stuff, then you self-study till you understand it 100%.
The rule of thumb for all classes is 2-3 hours of study for every hour in lecture. That means for MATH 150 you should expect to spend 8-12 hours studying on your own outside of class.
Engineering requires 12 credits/semester, so you'd have at least 13 in the semester you take 150--That means 26-39 hours of studying on your own outside class i.e. 6 hours a day 7 days a week, 6.5 hours every day but Sat/Sun, or 8 hours a day Mon-Fri.
Here are a couple useful resources:
Also, FYI for YouTube, if you hit shift+> on YouTube, it speeds up the video 1.25x 1.5x 2.0x -- which has really saved my ass, cause I don't have patience for slow talkers. (Conversely, shift+< slows the video back down)
One of my favorite tutorials was a book called "How to Ace Calculus". It was a fun book to read and just so happened to go into great detail about calculus. I highly recommend it.
If you feel that ZyBooks does not do a good job in explaining the topics, then you should find other sources to help you understand the material. As you have suggested, take note of the topic and exercises and look for other sources to explain them.
Sources I used when I took Calc:
Here's my dropbox link of the last book for a preview: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/spnay16f7cybdzg/AAAOWMFGgjNqEVdG6o2lXSmba?dl=0
I never said it made it a "bad" book in a deep sense. But it can quite easily explain why someone who isn't in the very narrow set of potential beneficiaries of Spivak's style might feel like the book is opaque, frustrating or unclear--adjectives we commonly associate with "bad" math books. And I also want to double down on the narrowness of Spivak's approach. The people coming away frustrated from Spivak were not looking for How To Ace Calculus, they were looking for a relatively rigorous treatment of the subject matter. What they got was the real meaning of the word rigor--that unexpected revelation is enough to cause some frustration. Frustration that I am willing to partially grant people without castigating them for not matching their expectations properly.
Hey man, Calculus is a tough class. Depending on what your algebra background is, Calc 1 can be an especially challenging course. It doesn't say anything about how you'll do in your CS courses. That aside, if you're struggling w/ calc check out this book. It takes the mystery out of the major concepts of Calculus and I attribute a large part of my success in Calc 1 to this book. It doesn't read like a textbook, and I guarantee you won't regret dropping $17 on this. That aside, sorry about the shittiness.
Sucks man. I don't know what level of Calculus you're doing, my GF had a really rough time passing Calc 2 which was the last class she needed to finish her degree (took it 3 times).
The last time she ended up getting a pair of books and those more than anything seemed to get her over the hump of failing with 50% and into the "C" range.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606
https://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Rest-Calculus-MultiVariable/dp/0716741741
Also just as a general rule, studying all night so that you're sleep deprived for a test is usually counterproductive. Doesn't matter how much you cram if your brain is fried and not working on all cylinders when it's test time.
Not a textbook, but check out these:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0716741741/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=304485901&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0716731606&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=0KX1ZS8ARF7D5EB6AF92
Hey, if you or anybody is having trouble with Calc 1, check out this book: How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide
It's a math book that is actually fun to read and will take you through the key points of Calc 1 with no bullshit. Lots of fun little jokes and illustrations. It's pretty short and cheap. It helped me a lot back when I learned that stuff.
This isn't an online resource, but this book is awesome for learning Calc 1.
When I was (approximately) in 8th grade I read https://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606 and I loved it. :)
Several books helped me with calc II
http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Lifesaver-Tools-Princeton-Guides/dp/0691131538
Good refresher
http://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606
Itunes Video Series
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/calculus-lifesaver-lecture/id266853222
This book seems silly, but it's honestly great for learning Calculus, especially the second time: https://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606
(I read it in 1999 when I went from HS -> College, and the college I went into assumed you had already passed calc, and freshmen all had to start with second year calc. The professors recommended all incoming students refresh before the start of class, and I'm glad they did, because that book retaught some things I don't think I learned correctly the first time, made a huge difference).
My favorite two books for Calc 1,2, and 3 hands down:
How to Ace Calculus
How to Ace the Rest of Calculus
They're short, to the point, and pretty funny honestly.
How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide
While not a replacement text (you need more problems!), this is pretty swell for single variable and they even have a follow up text.
How to Ace Calculus
Got an A in Calculus (regular, not business) with this book, and I was really rusty at math.
Oh, and accounting is NOT math intensive...at all. If you can do + - * / and use a calculator, then you're fine.
Calculus: https://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606 and https://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Rest-Calculus-MultiVariable/dp/0716741741 will get you right up to speed.
I also had about a 12 year break between HS and college, and like you got through Trig just fine and then found myself drowning in Calc 1. Here's what helped me:
-attended another section of the class with another professor
-books that translated the mathy language into intuition
(http://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606 and http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Easy-Way-Douglas-Downing/dp/0764129201/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415864089&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=calculus+the+easy+way)
-MIT OCW videos
-Khan Academy
Good luck. If you make it through this.. well, I'm not going to say it's easy going after, but you will know how to be confused and work through that confusion, and that is a priceless skill in the rest of the curriculum.
Well the good news is that we have more resources available now than even 5 years ago. :) I'm in calc 1 right now, and was having trouble putting the pieces together into a whole that made sense. A few of my resources are classroom specific but many would be great for anyone not currently in a class.
Free:
www.khanacademy.org
free video lectures and practice problems on all manner of topics, starting with elementary algebra. You can start at the beginning and work your way through, or just start wherever.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
free online courses and lessons from MIT (!!) where you can watch lectures on a subject, do practice problems, etc. Use just for review or treat it like a course, it's up to you.
Cheap $$
http://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331675661&amp;sr=8-1
$10ish shipped for a book that translates calculus from math-professor to plain english, and is funny too.
http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Lifesaver-Tools-Excel-Princeton/dp/0691130884/ref=pd_cp_b_1
$15 for a book that is 2-3x as thick as the previous one, a bit drier, but still very readable. And it covers Calc 1-3.
It's really smart to be playing to your strengths: if you excel at language and writing, then read a book that talks about math in more detail. Textbooks are good for problems and for reference, but I find them very hard to read. They use equations where they should be using words.
Go to your local library, and look in the math section until you find something interesting. I found this book when I was struggling with calculus: How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise guide. It was smart, funny, and really explained topics in ways I could relate to.
That's the kind of thing I would look for if I were you. Good luck! I hope you see post in all the ~430 comments!
I'm planning on relearning calculus also. The books that were recommended to me were:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1592575129?pc_redir=1412262976&amp;robot_redir=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0716731606/ref=pd_aw_sims_3?pi=SL500_SY115&amp;simLd=1
They're not exactly textbooks, but they appear to be good guides. Best of luck.